| swiss cheese country País fragmentado como un queso suizo
Explanation:
The idea of comparing current Palestine with a “Swiss cheese” was voiced by Mahmoud Abbas, the president of Palestine (a State recognized by 138 of the 193 UN members and since 2012 with the status of non-member observer State in the UN), at the United Nations Assembly lately in 2020. By resorting to the metaphor of the Swiss cheese, Abbas was actually pointing at the extreme fragmentation of the Palestine State. This fragmentation is what explains the situation of the Palestinian enclaves or areas in the West Bank, also known as the Palestinian “archipelago”.
I believe the idea of fragmentation, a fragmented State, is what needs to be stressed here in the translation, this is what I “read” behind the words of Mahmoud Abbas.
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This Wikipedia entry explains it all:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_enclaves
Enclaves, cantons or archipelago
A variety of terms are used by Palestinians and outside observers to describe these spaces, including "enclaves,"[l] "cantons,"[m] "open-air prisons",[n] reservations[8] or, collectively, as a "ghetto state"[o] while "islands" or "archipelago" is considered to communicate how the infrastructure of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank has disrupted contiguity between Palestinian areas.[9] "Swiss cheese" is another popular analogy.[10][11] Of these terms, "enclaves", "cantons"[12] and archipelago[p] have also been applied to the pattern of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict entry for "Bantustan" says that they also are called "cantons or enclaves" and makes use of the word "fragmentation" in its analysis as of 2006.
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From the International Criminal Court:
https://www.un.org/unispal/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ICCANN...
SITUATION IN THE STATE OF PALESTINE
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[the question is] whether the land can be connected or is broken up into small parcels like a Swiss cheese that could never constitute a real state. The more outposts that are built, the more the settlements expand, the less possible it is to create a contiguous state. So in the end, a settlement is not just the land that it’s on, it’s also what the location does to the movement of people; what it does to the ability of a road to connect people, one community to another; what it does to the sense of statehood that is chipped away with each new construction.
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https://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20200211/473470784450/...
REDACCIÓN
11/02/2020
Naciones Unidas, 11 feb (EFE).- El presidente palestino, Mahmud Abás, llevó este martes a la ONU su oposición frontal al plan de paz de Estados Unidos y dejó claro que no aceptará un Estado palestino como el que propone, totalmente fragmentado, como un "queso suizo".
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-un-id...
Palestinians' Abbas, at U.N., says U.S. offers Palestinians 'Swiss cheese' state
Waving a copy of a map that the U.S. plan envisions for a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine, Abbas said the state carved out for Palestinians looked like a fragmented “Swiss cheese.”
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I want to make clear that even this excerpt refers back to the history of Israel, I believe the metaphor of fragmentation still applies. I think the idea of fragmentation, now voiced by the Palestinians all over the world, is what was also at that time behind the notion of the Swiss cheese.
| Toni Castano
Spain
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peer agreement (net): +5
