106 chapter two For Yiftachel, the apartheid in Israel is “creeping” because it has yet to be openly acknowledged and sanctioned by a political movement (Yiftachel 2005, 128). Similar to Mac Allister, Yiftachel points out that the Israeli incorporation regime is geographically continuous in its treatments and containment of all Palestinian nationals. Having defined “creeping apartheid,” as a stratified incorporation system, he explains that [t]his undeclared system of control stretches over Israel proper and the occupied territories, and sees groups such as Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza; the Druze and Bedouin within the Green Line; Orthodox and Ultra Orthodox Jews; Jewish settlers; new Jewish immigrants (termed Olim in the Israeli Zionist lexicon); and migrant workers all enjoying different de jure and de facto “packages” of rights and capabilities. The civil status of these groups is determined by their ethnicity, religiosity, and location. …. The shaping of Arabs’ citizenship within the Green Line can only be understood as part of this system (Yiftachel 2011, 129–130). My analysis of the structure of the particular Israeli incorporation regime for Palestinian citizens and its exclusive inclusive dynamics supports this contention. The Zionist settler-colonial regime and its policies and practices of exclusion are seen as belonging to the same ideological continuum, despite the various historical periods of occupation and malleable geographic borders. In spite of the varying relations of exception faced by different segments of the Palestinian population at large, of which this book will deconstruct the relation of exception embedded in Palestinian citizenship, my analysis in the coming chapters will nevertheless treat the racialized, oppressive and exclusive mechanisms of the Zionist regime as existing over a single political-geographic unit, namely, Mandate Palestine.