From the struggles over Haram al-Sharif (the Temple Mount) to the historic stone with which all Greater Jerusalem is now clad, Jerusalem is an intense case study of the politics
In a quest for biblical archaeology, Israel has attempted to resurrect the subterreanean fragments of ancient civilization to testify for its present-day rights above ground.When the Zionists first arrived
The aquifers deep below the West Bank are a battleground, just as much as the rivers of sewage split through its valleys by both Israeli and Palestinian settlements. The subterranean
Photoessay on settlement brochures to come
The journey into the mountains, seeking to reestablish the relation between terrain and sacred text, was a work of tracing the location of biblical
optical urbanism- photoessays to come
High ground offers three strategic assets: greater tactical strength, self-protection, and a wider view. This principle is as long as military history itself. The Crusaders
Many different types of settlements perch atop the hills of the West Bank, providing islands of biblical identity that are also strategic vantage points. The Community Settlement is a new
Mountains play a special part in Zionist holiness. The settlers surge into the folded terrain of the West Bank and up to its summits combines imperatives of politics and spirituality.
Two-dimensional maps, fundamental to the understanding of political borders, have been drawn again and again for the West Bank. Each time they have failed to capture its vertical divisions.
In
Weizman introduces the experience of territory in the West Bank, which explodes simple political boundaries and crashes three-dimensional space into six dimensions three Jewish and three Arab.
Since the 1967
