Israeli policy combines total containment with funneled, easily closed passage points

Evidence

Ehud Olmert, Ariel Sharon’s successor as Israeli prime minister, has committed Israel wholeheartedly to his predecessor’s plan, a mix of containerized Palestinian abandonment alongside regulating the trickle of Palestinian traffic through funneled openings, cattle crossings, easily closed. The mix of containment and funneling perhaps hastening the pace of claustrophobia and heightening the tensions. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 681