A groundbreaking expose of Israel's terrifying reconceptualization of geopolitics in the Occupied Territories and beyond. "Hollow Land" is a groundbreaking exploration of the political space created by Israel's colonial occupation. In this journey from the deep subterranean spaces of the West Bank and Gaza to their militarized airspace, Weizman unravels Israel's mechanisms of control and its transformation of the Occupied Territories into a theoretically constructed artifice, in which natural and built features function as the weapons and ammunition with which the conflict is waged. Weizman traces the development of these ideas, from the influence of archaeology on urban planning, Ariel Sharon's reconceptualization of military defense during the 1973 war, through the planning and architecture of the settlements, to contemporary Israeli discourse and practice of urban warfare. In exploring Israel's methods to transform the landscape itself into a tool of total domination and control, Hollow Land lays bare the political system at the heart of this complex and terrifying project of late-modern colonial occupation.

Introduction - Frontier Architecture p. 1

Interlude - 1967 p. 17

1 Jerusalem: Petrifying the Holy City p. 25

2 Fortifications: The Architecture of Ariel Sharon p. 57

3 Settlements: Battle for the Hilltops p. 87

4 Settlements: Optical Urbanism p. 111

5 Checkpoints: The Split Sovereign and the One-Way Mirror p. 139

6 The Wall: Barrier Archipelagos and the Impossible Politics of Separation p. 161

7 Urban Warfare: Walking Through Walls p. 185

8 Evacuations: Decolonizing Architecture p. 221

9 Targeted Assassinations: The Airborne Occupation p. 237

Postscript p. 259

Notes p. 269

Index