Book by Neve Gordon traces the evolution of Israel's military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza from 1967 through the Oslo era, analyzing how Israeli control gradually became based upon separation, closure, and indirect management of the Palestinian population (through the Palestinian Authority). Gordon argues that the occupation transformed from a "colonization principle" in which Israel, as the colonizer, "attempts to manage the lives of the colonized inhabitants while exploiting the captured territory's resources" such as "land, water, and labor" to a "separation principle" in which it abandoned administration of the colonized, intensified its military controls, but continued its exploitation of the occupied territory's resources (199). In other words, Israel sought increasing control over the land and its resources while strengthening its military grip over an unwanted population—the Palestinians. A valuable resource for political scientists and historians studying the evolution of Israeli occupation strategy, the shift from integration to containment of the Palestinian population, and the transformation of Israeli control over the West Bank and Gaza from 1967 through Oslo.
