![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The interior is in the case of historic Palestine and for Israeli-Palestinians, a place of exclusion, danger, and violence. 1The creation of Israel in 1948 and its expansion in 1967, to include the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights, and in 1982 South Lebanon, meant that it superimposed itself onto the already-existing country of Palestine and de facto appropriated its territory, destroyed Palestinian villages, erased their names, and redrew its borders.ĢIn the photography essay Under the Last Sky, Edward Said highlights specific points regarding the Palestinian border – that its mapping is not in the hands of the Palestinians themselves but of Israel that the borders are not stable but under threat and shifting with the on-going settlement policy in the West Bank and Jerusalem and finally, that the imposition of the Israeli/Palestinian border has created further divisions of Palestinian territory and society between those Said called the Palestinians of the Interior (or Palestinian Israelis) and of the Exterior, namely the Palestinians who live outside the state of Israel, in exile as Palestinians of the diaspora or as refugees, who fled Israeli invasions and settled in neighbouring Arab states and in the Gaza Strip, and as Palestinians living in zones A and B of the West Bank (Said, After the Last Sky 51-3).ģIn 1999, when the book was published, Said described the Palestinians remaining within the newly formed borders of Israel as living “on the edge, under the gun, inside the barriers and kasbahs” (51). ![]()
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