Israel-Palestine forms one doppelganger society doubling schools roads laws and courts.

Evidence

Like all segregated societies that are layered on top of each other, Israel and Palestine are not two distinct geographies. Instead, they make up a singular doppelganger society, requiring a doubling of everything: schools, roads, laws, courts. It’s a psychological prison for Jewish Israelis, locked inside a fortress of fear and denial, and it’s a very literal prison for Palestinians, entrapped in a warren of walls and checkpoints in the West Bank, in the open-air prison that is Gaza, and in the sprawling jail cells that have made incarceration such a routinized part of daily life that around 20 percent of the Palestinian population in the occupied territories has experienced some form of arrest and/or detention by Israeli forces—some 800,000 people, according to a study by the Palestinian prisoner support group Addameer. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 986

Categorization

• XREF: This extends the book’s central Mirror World metaphor onto the political geography of Israel-Palestine, folding the personal doubling device into a state-scale analysis.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing whether the ‘asymmetric doubleness’ (psychological prison vs literal prison) is a coherent extension of the doppelganger idea or whether it strains when one side’s doubling is materially enforced.