ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 concludes the book by linking the nature of the Israeli land regime to the implications for the imposed exclusion of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel and residents of East Jerusalem. The Israeli project has, since its inception, created an architecture of exclusion framed in ideological and political terms to construct the land regime. Moreover, all other aspects of the economic and social fields, and efforts to construct and empower the dominant Jewish citizens, have required advanced methods to control the public space and recraft it in legal terms to favour the Jewish population. These strategies and policies have been conducted by broad and progressive encroaching mechanisms such as land expropriation and forced housing evictions. While inextricable from ethnocratic motives, which are reflected in major aspects of Palestinians’ lives – not just pertaining to the question of land – the suggestion of this book is that control over land and exclusion from the territory have substantial consequences far greater than narrow land issues, such as preventing any possible future permanent peace solution that includes East Jerusalem as a result of sketching borders on the ground post eviction or the demolition of houses. The Palestinian presence in Israel’s state policies remains under focus.
