Tuesday 7 April 2009

quotes from Hollow Land, Israel's Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman-3

pg 8

Chaos has its peculiar structural advantages. It supports one of Israel's foremost strategies of obfuscation: the promotion of complexity - geographical, legal or linguistic. Sometimes, following a terminology pioneered by Henry Kissinger, this strategy is openly referred to as 'constructive blurring'. This strategy seeks simultaneously to obfuscate and naturalize the facts of domination.

...many settlements were indeed constructed with the aim of creating a 'irresolvable geography'

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