The Geopolitics of Israel's “Seam Zone” in the West Bank of Palestine
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper discusses how Israel has intensified its settlement activities in areas immediately east of the 1949 Armistice Line/Green Line, seeking to carve out 13% of West Bank territory and add this to its pre-June 1967 sovereign space. In doing so, state planners have engineered the Separation Wall (SW), an 8-meter-high barrier in part and twice as long as the Green Line. This Wall is designed to ‘border and order’ territories that Israel desires to annex, declaring it as a Seam Zone (SZ), since it lies between the Separation Wall and the Green Line. Concomitant with these colonial activities, Israel has imposed a strict system of military control on Palestinian communities. While some such communities were conditionally left inside the SZ and are living in their localities upon presenting proof of permanent residency, many others were arbitrarily separated by the SW from their best fertile land and water resources. This unilateral step in settlement implementation aims to further Israel's geopolitical strategy of creating ‘facts on the ground.’ The now imminent declaration of the SZ as Israeli sovereign space was backed up by Trump's Deal of the Century (DoC) announced in January 2020. In 2024 the SZ remains an open question.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".