"Sharon's architecture involved not only destruction but also construction. The other major projects he undertook, besides the destruction of the camps, was an attempt to "pacify" the refugees by constructing and forcefully relocating a few thousand of them into Israeli-style social housing blocks next to major Palestinian cities". — Al Jazeera English
With the recent news of Ariel Sharon's passing, Eyal Weizman (architect, professor and director of the Forensic Architecture) reviews the legacy of construction and destruction he left behind. As "Daddy of the Settlement movement" his legacy has decisively shaped the built environment of today's Israel and Palestine. For more on his political legacy you can also read Jonathan Cook here.
h/t @Brendan Cormier
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I used to get threatening private letters and public posts from watchdogs for publishing news in here about Palestinians, Eyal Weizman, Israel, settlements and Al Jazeera. Sometimes containing all or any of those words. My mother, other females in my family and my buttocks were thrown in the mix.
@Orhan, thanks for the heads up...
.;.) no worries Nam maybe I was cherry picked and the times have changed..
where'd be the fun in that...
God, Orhan, that's scary! I'm sorry to hear that.
Sharon wrote a book on KIBBUTZ + Bauhaus that i liked. He and Erich Mendelsohn were two architects that that brought Modernist architecture into Israel. I met Film director Amos Gitai , also trained as an architect whose father was a Bauhaus architect. You can sense the desire for community and solidarity in the architecture.
A good photo book on Israeli modern building is from photographer Gunther Forg? )i think it is spelled correctly) Been a long time since I had these books.
@eric chavkin
Just to clarify you are referring to Arieh Sharon, the Israeli architect and winner of the Israel Prize for Architecture, correct?
Not Ariel Sharon who this new item is regarding?
Good call Nam. I was going wtf. I know eric chavkin all too well that he would elate "Ariel" Sharon.
Nam< Yep that's right. See what effect a night of vodka with Mo does to me ...
"Well, for me, the most important emotion is a sense of, finally, the man who carried out a war in which 20,000 people were killed, the Lebanon War of 1982, who besieged Beirut, who destroyed building after building, killing scores of civilians in a search to destroy the PLO leadership, has finally left the world. I was in Beirut that summer of 1982. And I—to me, it’s horrific to watch the hagiographies that are being produced by people like Vice President Biden, by The New York Times, by much of the media, about a man who really should have ended his days at The Hague before the International Criminal Court. He was a man who, from the very beginning of his career, started out killing people. As the commander of Unit 101, he was the man who ordered the Qibya massacre."
-RASHID KHALIDI talking to Amy Goodman.
Full report: http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/13/noam_chomsky_on_the_legacy_of
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