evidence: Ibegin my study of recent proliferation of border spaces in Palestine and Israel, perhaps counterintuitively, with the opening of a border nearly fifty years ago. In 1967, Israel's conquest of the West Bank and Gaza Strip gave it control of the entirety of historic Palestine, which had previously been divided among Israeli, Jordanian and Egyptian control. The pre-1967 border that divided Israel and West Jerusalem from the West Bank and East Jerusalem, known as the ‘Green Line’, went from a closed national border to a porous internal border. It largely ceased to have an on-the-ground physical manifestation, although the construction of the wall partially followed the Green Line, albeit with significant diversions into Palestinian territory. After 1967, Israeli authorities, particularly in the formerly divided city of Jerusalem, moved quickly to erase the walls and fortifications that marked its location and to assert Israeli control over the entire territory. East Jerusalem was annexed into Israel, and Israeli settlement construction began to occur beyond the Green Line. It exists on international maps, but is often unmarked on both Israeli and Palestinian maps.