At the heart of the current Plestinian-Israeli struggle lies the question of territorial partition and the establishment of sovereignty. the israeli government and the Palestinian Authority negotiated interim borders, but new permanent check points and border closures became severe problems and contributed to the failure of negotiations and the eruption of a new uprising. Crossing the Green line between the west bank and Israel is about passing through these checkpoints-specifically those that mark the Green Line, the geopolitical border separating the West Bank from Israel proper-and how their existence affects the daily life of West Bank Palestinians. With un paralleled access to firsthand accounts, AVram S. Bornstein explores the complex relationship between Israeli Arabs, Jews, and West Bank Palestinians in the best tradition of ethnographic inquiry and participant-observation. By describing the everyday lives of West Bank Palestinians with whom he lived and worked, Bornstein reve