tv The Architecture of Violence Al Jazeera January 3, 2018 6:32am-7:01am +03
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oklahoma. doesn't he look ridiculous interviews bypass like being the king of the hill and say these to you my name is a vitamin i'm an architect i'm a writer i'm an activist. my work has to do with the intersection of architecture and violence. architecture and the built environment is a kind of a slow violence and. the occupation is an environment that slowly was conceived to strangulate palestinian
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communities villages and towns to create an environment it will be unlivable for the people there. the crime was done on the drawing board itself. the settlements which are here in blue have been built like wedges not only to serve the colonies themselves but consciously to create material damage cutting apart the very sort of fragile palestinian built fabric. architecture is used by architect as a weapon. we're looking at the battle and weapons and ammunitions off in a fairly simple elements there trees there terraces there are houses there cladding
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there are barriers. everything in this panorama is a tactical to. within the architecture for the patients just need to know how to decode it. thanks. the first thing i want to show you is the neighborhood oh you know. off the sixty seven israel annex is a large part of the west bank and calls the jerusalem and immediately starts building remote neighborhoods in these neighborhoods a cold the living moved around the city. immediately after the occupation all of the sudden you see their buildings that make us feel like we in the center of jerusalem in fact we're miles away. look actually at the corner of the buildings in architect know that we need to look at
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the corner of the building in order to study in scenes construction i see that tells me that this is a concrete building and that the stone is merely a veneer of one and a half cents to be terrific. so the government wanted to tell the people living here that they're living in part of the holy city of jerusalem and it was left for architecture to tell that story i am. architectural principles the israeli occupation he's way off painting separation and exercising control or so this is the time of the road building ninety nine six . now called the apartheid road oh so they wrote it simply serve the jewish communities in jewish colonies and settlements in the south of jerusalem
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we have a whole jewish neighborhood overhead. and now we are driving over for palestinian family. sentiment to build on hilltops overlooking the palestinian in the valleys between the. main reason that they're built on hilltops is for self protection and for them to dominate the surrounding. so though israel builds hundreds and thousands of structures in the west bank the number of take policies is very limited there overreaction on the single or double
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family houses with red roof very suburban take biology in fact read for free something that is mandated by law because this is allowing the military to navigate the landscape to understand what's ours what's there was friends with way you can bomb and when not. to enter the house through the in the circuit as you move through the house you open towards the view the house itself is like an optical instrument and when it is laid in rings around the hilltops it is like a suburban scale optical device that can survey the tired territory around. no way. no way no. and. but there must have. we. know
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a difference i'm sure you get there you. know but. i thought. that david vocationally sobota would seem to show him when your very last thought of course you'll trust him when you get in the church is a little extreme when you call the cliche loisa both of you sing because they have a confession to simply put it we're selling. and you look like a killer. over let me look at your typical mass and. when we think about borders when we see even the wall we magine a single instrument that separates israelis and palestinian two sides off a map. but actually in the israel palestine from tear the border had splintered into various border devices defenses around the
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settlements there are blockades around palestinian cities the highways that operators borders that checkpoints in sterile areas and all sort of other border device that shrink and expand the terrain at will. to control a space you need to create differentiation in speed of movement. when you put israeli colonies on highways york celebrated movement for the space. walk. in the same way and every twist and turn of the terrain palestinians would encounter a border a checkpoint a fence a valley that they cannot close. sometimes
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you can read politics on the most mundane of architecture elements. turnstyles in israel when they put them as the most important instrument in checkpoints they've reduced the arm of the turnstile for it to press against the body in case there is anything a person carries but that creates horrific situations when people who are a little bit. larger would get caught up within that turnstile so cruel and degrading and reduces palestinians to nothing more than bodies.
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but if you remember. this you left without so much death if i remember that yeah i was a child we used to good that i'm to blame but after they decide to take it that the now is out of. the three it can't go down anymore so this is affectively the wall it's just not a wall here it's a fence yes we got there we can't there walk we can't do anything here. if you're not the staff there for around. and you have ambition. what is very cruel about this tower next to the wall is that if you start to hide the presence of the army so you don't always assume this somebody's looking at you
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. you see apartheid in action at this moment here. when conflict a ruckus the slow violence of the environment is being put into immediate use israeli soldiers move down into palestinian towns and villages from the settlements themselves the checkpoint hardened and nobody can move through the border completes around them and they tie a territory springs into use. in
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two thousand and two sharon ordered the israeli army to occupy the entirety of the west bank as part of operation defensive shield. they had no problem with the open areas but invading the cities was somehow the most difficult part. of the moment. we're now at the heart of the journey refugee camp. this is palestinian ground zero . in two thousand and two days really army try to take hold of this camp and then they've decided to enter the city by first using the nine bulldozers.
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the way they did it really is a kind of a design by destruction off the can. they cut literally new streets through the dense urban fabric in order to allow the tanks to come in. the resistance retreated into the core of the camp and at the end of the battle effectively the bull. those is collapsed the heart of the camp on those on those five. i don't know. it was in the first times israel used bulldozers but it's the
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first time that the bullets were integrated into the battlefield. the fleet of bulldozers rew exponentially and the bulldozers become really the means of israeli fighting in palestinian urban fabric. a pro two thousand and two attack on janine and that blows was the poor tree for the go s to think about the urban warfare in iraq and also training in the israeli training sides stuff will come our cities that were built in the in the desert in the south. we are now in a city of nablus was one of the biggest bore trees in two thousand and two for the
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development of a new type of urban warfare israelis were studying not only that city but how cities operate. they understood in order to occupy the city they need to invent in moving the city in a different manner. i started to study tactics which i thought were very architectural. even the our no one but me for this should give us. got the whole anemic dish limit usually the fee goes if. only to go to go to go see much of the guy could put the. i need a. new bill i'm sure you'll know about the whole thing sure maybe they keep their bit say in the knesset a theme then becomes a holy man but kewl. what they're
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actually do is they're turning private and public space upside down to private space becomes a space of circulation. and a public space the space of the street is where the resistance fighters killed. you know monsieur our father is a palestinian architect that lived through the israeli invasion and these still in charge eleven years later on the ongoing project off reconstructing the city so that was the first invaded then the troops came in and they sort of did the old city and this is where the men destruction based on. others. on
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the top of the on thought about. going through the old city. is like going through one. where everything was demolished the streets with them all well bush. looks dumb here is a comprehensive the story one of the quartet stuff was affected by the invasion. and you see all of it. yes. this is one of the useful you'll see more of those to indicate to the on the full just which you should go.
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right to has you. have a little you know you. saw this lady is one of the living witnesses of what happened during the various invasions in the eighty year period of two thousand and eight two thousand and ten minutes. after she was smoking had a lot of pot to get when the soldiers came from to watch. and you were. she was as if you speed. it in english sorry to say that she was telling him off her and she continued smoking her water five he went and then the whole room behind her went blasted but she didn't make a move and she said ok i hope i will die and i will be recorded on guinness as the first one who was killed whilst walking the water five in the us so that was
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the story i mean you can see what it means to live in such a place. that has. when violence is acted through architecture architecture must somehow arise to resist it it must find the tools in must find those tools within its own toolbox. now that most wars take place in the city which most war is urban warfare.
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architecture becomes really the most important evidence to read the contours of the violence. we can reconstruct the battle itself and what happened by looking very closely at the ruins. again the confidence of the e.u. to fund this project called forensic architecture to present architectural so. acts as evidence in legal and political for. a major project if we do is an analysis of drone warfare in pakistan afghanistan yemen somalia and gaza forensic all conjecture working with the mandate to look at particular strikes and to do as far as we can and accurate reconstructions against which to assess the competing claims about the strikes
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themselves. in gaza during two thousand and eight two thousand and nine the i.d.f. started employing a kind of a tactic so for warning. there was shooting a warning miss on a roof or fielding's waiting for about three minutes before they demolished the buildings complete. the cellar family is one of the saddest and most horrific instances when you kind of warfare that tries to be legal the kind of for humanitarian war has gone completely wrong here mr fay is high and mr nose thank you very much for coming here to speak to us for. our work has been actually in an attempt to
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reconstruct what happened between the warning shot and the lethal shot. or how a family gets organized how they understand the options facing them. the family was trying to leave the house they divided themself into two groups. in that here. my model. the second group when it was just about to exit for the main door. the big bomb hit demolished a building and killed seven members of his family. thanking a situation like that is using a very particular story the story of family and the story of the house in the traces that we can see in this house to pose a kind of
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a political challenge to israel humanitarian war in gaza. your personal tragedy is enormous it's also a part of the tragedy of the palestinian people. not just egypt and you. and they have. only. i love this land and i care deeply about both peoples that live in here and i think looking at the landscape i see this kind of slow process of killing. i would have loved to practice my architecture free of the constraints and violence of this conflict but i think that to be an architect is not only to build and to
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