On the one hand, these lines of segregation aid in facilitating and maintaining particular privileges to the Israeli-Jewish population, especially the intentional and exclusive investment in economic and employment opportunities and infrastructure. This allows for and ensures Israeli-Jewish development and growth to achieve the desired demographic majority. On the other hand, this segregation and consequent privileging of the Israeli-Jewish population by Israel embeds an exceptionalism that coalesces with a fear of “the other” – a purposely unknown, misrepresented Palestinian community – and ultimately aids in the formation of a united Israeli-Jewish population. This segregation further enables a concurrent denial of Palestinian development and growth. It is the consequence of two distinct phenomena. First, the development of Israeli-Jewish communities systematically comes at the expense of the Palestinian economy and communities. Second, deliberate policies lead communities in 1948 Palestine, to be chronically underfunded and neglected, and communities in the occupied Palestinian territories, to have their economy and socio-cultural connections severed by strategic lines of Israeli-Jewish colonies and their associated infrastructure that dominate and divide the land. The result is that Israel entrenches its political, demographic and economic superiority and domination in Mandatory Palestine. This is achieved at the expense of the Palestinian people and their right to self-determination, through de-development and dispossession. Ultimately, this leads to the degradation of the international perception and legitimacy of the Palestinian right to self-determination. 1.2.2. Fragmentation Fragmentation corresponds to the full range of laws, regulations and administrative decisions, policies and practices designed to politically and territorially fracture the collective identity of a people. Fragmentation policies violate Article 2(b) of the Apartheid Convention which refers to “deliberate imposition on a racial group […] of living conditions calculated to cause its […] physical destruction in whole or in part”.54 Against Palestinians, Israel deploys fragmentation policies at two levels: • Territorial fragmentation through the disconnection of the people from its territory by the division of the territory into incongruous pockets of lands, subject to heavy restrictions on freedom of movement between 54 Convention on Apartheid, supra 34, art.2(b). 20