Israel's ‘Narrow Waist’ and the Fate of Palestinian Localities in the Triangle Area Inside Israel
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Abstract
This paper challenges the veracity of Israel's discourse of threat revolving around its so-called ‘narrow waist’ area in the central part of the state – a discourse that has been sustained and reproduced for more than half a century. The fact that both Israeli top leaders, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz (head of the Blue-White party) have endorsed President Trump's “Deal of the Century” (DoC) and have agreed to transfer ten Palestinian towns (pop. ca. 350,000 residents) located inside Israel's sovereign territory (The Triangle) to a Palestinian political entity cobbled together in the West Bank is in itself an anti-thesis to its own discourse of threat. The proposed exit of those towns from Israel's sovereign area will necessitate a new delineation of the Green Line, shifting it further westward inside Israel's ‘narrow waist,’ a distance of some 2 to 5 km and perhaps more. In other words, this ‘narrow waist’ will be rendered even narrower by at least 25% in specific sections. This is clear corroboration that Israel is crafting an array of strategic mythogemes in its discourse to suit its own political stance in order to defy international laws and relevant UN resolutions which call for a return of occupied Palestinian territories taken by force in wartime.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".