Walls, domination and resistance. The self-determination of the peoples in Palestine and al-Masriq

Abstract

The walls become valid elements to visualize the scope of globalization and its contradictions. The one built by Israel in the West Bank, to the detriment of Palestine, makes it possible to analyze historical conflicts with implications at local, regional and global scales. In this article, through the aforementioned case, we examine the resistance of the peoples who fight for their self-determination and the domination exercised over them by the national states inserted within geopolitical interests. Walls are technologies of control and discipline that regulate the inside and the outside, impose arbitrary interventions and build legitimacy through mechanisms of otrification. They become sophisticated tools of state bio power that with the development of necropolitics reach the limit of justifying ethnic cleansing and extermination, given the conspicuous absence from the diplomatic agendas of what is called the "international community".