Like all segregated societies that are layered on top of each other, Israel and Palestine are not two distinct geographies. Instead, they make up a singular doppelganger society, requiring a doubling of everything: schools, roads, laws, courts. It's a psychological prison for Jewish Israelis, locked inside a fortress of fear and denial, and it's a very literal prison for Palestinians, entrapped in a warren of walls and checkpoints in the West Bank, in the open-air prison that is Gaza, and in the sprawling jail cells that have made incarceration such a routinized part of daily life that around 20 percent of the Palestinian population in the occupied territories has experienced some form of arrest and/or detention by Israeli forces—some 800,000 people, according to a study by the Palestinian prisoner support group Addameer.

XREF: Connects to broader concepts of settler-colonial dual societies, legal scholar Raef Zreik's work on 'two states' fiction, and comparative frameworks like apartheid analyses.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 986