In a way the netphilosoph Hakim Bey and the anthropologist Marc Augé talk and write about the same thing when they formulate the concept of "No Places". Places which are "between", places where the wait and the action forms the place, transitory places, nomadic places, where activism and art meet and merge. Places where the hybridization of the content changes the forms and make the borders intangible and workable.
This is my phantasy about Tarifa and about Gibraltar, pockets of colonization where old gone empires keep the control and the key of the gates, as the Arabs and Jews expelled from Al Andalus and living in Marocco still keep the keys to their houses from the 16th Century.
In Jerusalem the keys of the Holy Places for the Christians, such as the Holy Sepulchre and other symbolical places, are kept by Arab families, living in Jerusalem since Saladin time.
They are the only people trustworthy enough to have the keys, and they pass the responsability and the keys from fathers to sons, in the confirmation of the patrilinear rule which is the ground for all the three monoteistic religions, the "people of the book".
Tarifa and Gibraltar and Tanger are both the gates and the keepers of the gates, I really wish we can etablish a permanent "no place" of resistance in such a place.