Hollow Land

From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels Israel’s mechanisms of control and its transformation of Palestinian towns, villages and roads into an artifice where all natural and built features serve military ends. Weizman traces the development of this strategy, from the influence of archaeology on urban planning, Ariel Sharon’s reconceptualization of military defence during the 1973 war, through the planning and architecture of the settlements, to the contemporary Israeli discourse and practice of urban warfare and airborne targeted assassinations.

Hollow Land lays bare the political system at the heart of this complex and terrifying project of late-modern colonial occupation.

De la tunelurile din Gaza la spatiul aerian militarizat al teritoriilor ocupate, Eyal Weizman dezvaluie mecanismele de control ale Israelului si transformarea oraselor, satelor si drumurilor palestiniene intr-un artificiu in care toate caracteristicile naturale si construite servesc scopurilor militare. Weizman urmareste dezvoltarea acestei strategii, de la influenta arheologiei asupra planificarii urbane, reconceptualizarea apararii militare de catre Ariel Sharon in timpul razboiului din 1973, prin planificarea si arhitectura asezarilor, pana la discursul israelian contemporan si practica razboiului urban si a obiectivelor aeropurtate. Hollow Land dezvaluie sistemul politic in centrul acestui proiect complex si terifiant de ocupatie coloniala moderna tarzie.