Eyal Weizman

Realizing a deficiency in my knowledge about the Israel-Palestine conflict, I purchased this book on the military urbanism of the area. Clearly Weizman is against the occupation, something he states early in the book, and something that is apparent throughout the book. While this immediately makes the book something many people will outright dismiss, his ability to discern and elucidate the myriad ways that the Isreali military has created fortifications, settlements and walls, and has conflicted with the Palestinians at checkpoints, through the air and literally walking through walls is phenomenal. The book gets more fascinating (and in many ways more surreal) the further one delves into it; from the choice of stone in Jerusalem to the use of mirrors in checkpoints and to the use of drones over occupied space, the book intelligently links architecture, politics and the military.… (más)