In the case, where the checkpoints are privatized, privatization is a less obvious step than it may at first seem, and the rationale behind the process is at least as ideological-managerial, if not more so, than it is purely economic. Similarly, I will attempt to raise several new questions which arise because of the existence of the new checkpoints, which can teach us once again what we thought we already knew about the occupation. My point here is that in the background of this text we keep hearing the question of what happens to a country when, in keeping with its neo-liberal ideology, it privatizes the most oppressive of its mechanisms, and what happens to the occupation when its very logic becomes united with the logic of late capitalism? What I would like to ask is whether we can still talk about the occupation in the same way – irregular, unexpected, organized in its lack of organization, characterized by its arbitrariness, or whether we are now facing a new occupation, which needs to be resisted in new ways.
