Book by Geoffrey Aronson documents Israel's systematic creation of 'facts on the ground' in the West Bank through settlement expansion in the years following the 1967 occupation. Drawing on Israeli government documents, Aronson shows how settlement building proceeded as deliberate official policy designed to preempt a Palestinian state, despite public denials. An early and foundational study of Israeli settlement strategy. A foundational resource for historians and policy researchers studying Israeli settlement strategy in the West Bank, the origins of facts-on-the-ground policy, and the deliberate effort to preempt Palestinian statehood.
