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In contrast to modern perceptions of territory as an abstract legal\u2013political entity, terroir invokes images of organic relations between people and a specific land with a unique \u2018character\u2019. The paper will analyze the evolving discourse in the West Bank settlements in recent years, which shifts the emphasis from biblical history, ideology, and security\u2014to tourism, vineries, and terroir. The argument will be that the usage of sophisticated wine language enables normalization of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank in a paradoxical way that is emphasizing their location and blurring it at the same time. While the concept of normalization is usually applied to the \u2018quality-oflife\u2019 urban settlements, our paper concentrates on the small and \u2018ideological\u2019 settlements, which are located in the densest Palestinian regions. By that, we wish to contribute to the growing research body on the West Bank settlements, as well as to the fields of geopolitics, colonial and postcolonial studies, and cultural geography. <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/0308518x15594917","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,9,9]],"date-time":"2015-09-09T00:29:54Z","timestamp":1441758594000},"page":"1351-1367","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":36,"title":["Wine-washing: colonization, normalization, and the geopolitics of <i>terroir<\/i> in the West Bank's settlements"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"47","author":[{"given":"Ariel","family":"Handel","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University, POB 653, Beer Sheva 8410501, Israel; and Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel"}]},{"given":"Galit","family":"Rand","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Independent researcher"}]},{"given":"Marco","family":"Allegra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CIES-IUL; Sala 2W10 (Ed. 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