this holding of space disrupts any clear sense of inside/outside, front/rear. it is also likely complicating any planning for an invasion of gaza's populated areas, rendering the staging areas for such an operation insecure and buying crucial time

it's been 48 hours and they _still_ haven't reasserted control over the area. unforeseen because inconceivable in the arrogant mindset of colonialism.

what happened now was no mere 'infiltration,' sneaking through the fence to disrupt. by holding space, they actively un-settled the colonial state's sense of territorialized normality.

this builds on the achievements and sacrifices of the freedom march, which turned the fence into a site of mass protest and confrontation at immense human cost and did much to puncture its aura of invincibility

the achievement this week was for the colonized to make the fence permeable to themselves too, to reverse ever so slightly the logic of the frontier

mass confinement meant armed resistance was limited to projectiles or infiltration. the former had to deal with challenges of range and accuracy, the latter was extremely difficult and dangerous. the area around the fence was depopulated, razed, and turned into a kill zone.

this is why almost immediately after the disengagement in 2005, the army was back inside the gaza strip a few days later and it was a non-event. it wasn't a 're-invasion' or a 'return' because they never really left, just moved their barracks a few kilometers away

a key precept of zionist doctrine is that there is no *border* with the gaza strip. a border means you relinquish authority over the other side. the fence is a frontier -- a line with no permanence, one that only the colonizer can traverse.

still processing the significance of how palestinians managed to invert the spatial terms of the occupation this week like never before (to my knowledge)

wish i could be walking through erez with my friends right now