Mobility disparity defines the occupation’s spatial apartheid

Evidence

Far from a temporary arrangement, the Separation Wall, then, is the final line in the roadmap of Palestinian politics, supplement to the dots marking Jewish settlements throughout the highlands of the West Bank while expanding the territory of green-line Israel – of what officially counts as the State of Israel – by 10 to 15 percent. The Wall is carefully constructed not to constrict the 29 or so superhighways connecting the illegally established Jewish settlements with Israel proper. These ethnonational highways, restricted to Israelis, allow for quick traversal of the Palestinian landscape beneath, unbothered by the crawling humiliation of Palestinians whose journey between village and town normally an hour or two away can consume a hazardous couple of days negotiating endless roadblocks and the degrading and often destructive whims of military personnel. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 636

Categorization

• SEED: Story angle: infrastructural apartheid visible in commute times — the same physical geography yields two radically different travel experiences; a concrete human-interest account of this time asymmetry could be a piece on ‘the geography of waiting.’
• XREF: connects to: Spatial practices cannot be read apart from social context — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1402