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The building of the Wall began in July, 2002. It started in the north, near Jenin, in the fields of a village called Salem. Ostensibly a security project, the Wall was apparently first suggested by the military. Gush Shalom, in their discussion of the Wall, suggest that its origin lies in the unrest that followed the breakdown of the Camp David talks and Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.1 When suicide bombers began blowing themselves up in Israeli cities there was an increasingly general call among Israelis for greater protection from the Palestinian threat.
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Jeffrey Goldberg, “Among the Settlers,” The New Yorker (March 31, 2004) at: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040531fa_fact2_d/.
Ibid.
Tom Segev, Elvis in Jerusalem: Post Zionism and the Americanization of Israel (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002), 102.
7. Ibid.
Ibid., 104.
Esther Benbassa and Jean-Christophe Attias, The Jews and Their Future: A Conversation on Judaism and Jewish Identities, trans. Patrick Camiller (Zed Books, 2004), 16.
Baha Abushaqra, “The Barrier to Peace,” (August 22, 2003) at: http://www.ramallahonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1571/.
Ibid.
Edward Said, “An Ideology of Difference,” in The Politics of Dispossession, The Struggle for Palestinian Self Determination 1969–1994 (New York: Vintage, 1994), 81–82.
Jacqueline Rose, States of Fantasy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), 4.
Laurence Silberstein, The Postzionism Debates: Knowledge and Power in Israeli Culture (New York; London: Routledge, 1999), 2.
Benedict Anderson developed the term “imaginary community” as a way of thinking about how the nation thinks about itself in Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (London; New York: Verso, 1983).
Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State: An Attempt at a Modern Solution of theJewish Question, ed. Jacob M. Alkow (New York: American Zionist Emergency Council, 1946), 96.
Charles Price, The Great White Walls Are Built, Restrictive Immigration to North America and Australasia 1836–1888. (Canberra: Australian National University, 1974), 23.
Ibid., 24.
Slavoj Zizek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real (New York: Wooster Press, 2001), 151.
Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall-Israel and the Arab World (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000), 12.
Goldie, Fear and Temptation: The Image of the Indigene in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Literatures (McGill, Canada: Queen’s University Press, 1989), 12.
Ibid.
Richard Terdiman, “Ideological Voyages,” quoted in ibid., 15.
See, for example, Henry Reynolds, The Law of the Land (Ringwood, Australia: Penguin, 1987).
Norman Finkelstein, Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (London: Verso, 2001), Chapter 4, “Settlement Not Conquest.”
Edward Said, Orientalism (London: Penguin, 1995), 188.
Gershom Scholem, The Messianic Idea in Judaism and Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality (New York: Schocken Books, 1971), 1.
Ibid., 4.
Yael Zerubavel, Recovered Roots (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995), 13.
Douglas Robinson, American Apocalypses: The Image of the End of the World in American Literature (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985), xii (Robinson’s italics).
Ibid. (Robinson’s italics).
Michel de Certeau, Heterologies: Discourses on the Other (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1986), 51.
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Stratton, J. (2008). The Wall at the End of the World: Zionism, Colonialism, Messianism. In: Jewish Identity in Western Pop Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230612747_5
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