ABSTRACT
This chapter takes up the contemporary use of the image in the West Bank in its most ubiquitous media posters, advertising and reads it against the past visual forms it re-stages mainly those of the revolutionary political posters of the 1970s and 1980s. The split marks a closing of a horizon in Palestinian national politics; Hamas eventually settled for a besieged and ostracized fiefdom in Gaza, and a self-disciplining Fatah in the West Bank re-integrated into the global-imperial political order. Priorities shifted, and the national lost further traction in the face of renewed factionalism and the engineering of an internal enemy. Authority tries to move between the lines as an authoritarian but self-disciplining political regime implicated in the protraction of the occupation and inserted into global order and as a besieged, mass, national-popular, ostensibly anti-colonial movement. Political effects take hold in the combination of emergent discourse and institutional-material restructuring.
