Borderlines explores the global map, one line at a time.

My better half: “Are you sure about this? They’ll kill you.”

Me: “Sure I’m sure. You can hardly expect me to write a series called Borderlines, about the strange lines that people draw to distinguish ‘us’ from ‘them,’ and then finish it without discussing the border between Israel and Palestine.”

Better half: “Do what you have to. But they are going to kill you.”

Me, slightly apprehensive: “You mean metaphorically kill me, right?”

Objectively speaking, a borderologist should love the Holy Land [1], veined as it is with boundaries both old and new, in different stages of acknowledgement and fortification: some internationally recognized ones are purposely overlooked [2], others are unrecognized, yet heavily militarized. Nevertheless, from the first installment of this series, this has been the elephant in the map room. Read more…