What is Israel doing to change the status of its checkpoints in the Occupied Territories?
It’s moving to make them permanent, in my opinion. They say that they are making them permanent, but that is making life easier for Palestinians, moving between checkpoints. What they’re actually doing is alternating them. So whereas now you have soldiers who check papers manually, the idea is now to have swipe cards. And of course, by creating the infrastructure for that kind of technology, you’re creating places which will look increasingly like the terminals in airports. At the biggest checkpoint, at Qalandiya between Jerusalem and Ramallah, as you go into Ramallah, they’ve cleared an enormous area. It’s clear that they want to make this a permanent arrangement. I suspect they’re trying to make the West Bank a site which is going to be divided between Israel and the Palestinians as part of the disengagement plans. It seems to me the idea is to disengage in Gaza and build the wall in the West Bank — you literally wall the Palestinians in, probably with the Palestinians living in some
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