Facts on the ground
For the book by Nadia Abu El Haj, see Facts on the Ground.
Facts on the ground is a diplomatic term that means the situation in reality as opposed to in the abstract.[1]
History
The term Facts on the ground has been in common use English since at least the middle 1920s.[2] It was popularised in the 1970s over discussions of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict,[3] where it was used to refer to Israeli settlements built in the occupied West Bank, which were intended to establish permanent Israeli footholds in Palestinian territory.[4]
Writing in 2010, Rashid Khalidi notes:
One reason Israel continues to build settlements is that, according to the so-called Clinton parameters laid down in 2000, a final Israeli–Palestinian agreement would grant sovereignty over Jewish-occupied areas to Israel, and Palestinian-inhabited areas to the new Palestinian state. Indeed, well over a decade of failed negotiations have only led to an acceleration of Israel’s land grab in the Holy City. Israeli planners have spent this time pushing settlers into heavily Arab-inhabited areas of the city, such as Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan, and Abu Dis, in order to create fresh "facts on the ground"—a tactic used by the Zionist movement for over a century in order to obtain control over more and more of Palestine.[5]
See also
- Fait accompli
- De facto
- Status quo ante bellum
- Ex factis jus oritur
- Realpolitik
- Revanchism
- Operation Uvda
References
- ↑ , Berridge & Lloyd 2012, p. 105.
- ↑ Koffka 1946, p. 284.
- ↑ Blok & Lardinois 2006, p. 442.
- ↑ Rosen 2007.
- ↑ Khalidi 2010.
References
- Berridge, G.R.; Lloyd, Lorna (2012), The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Diplomacy, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 105, ISBN 978-1-137-01760-4
- Blok, Josine; Lardinois, A. P. M. H. (2006), Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches, Brill, p. 442, ISBN 978-90-04-14954-0
- Khalidi, Rashid (April 2010), "Bad Faith in the Holy City", Foreign Policy
- Koffka, Kurt (1946) [1924], The Growth of the Mind: An Introduction to Child Psychology, Transaction Publishers, p. 284, ISBN 978-1-4128-3711-8
- Rosen, David (Fall 2007), "Searching for 'Facts' on the Ground", The Current
Further reading
Gershom Gorenberg, The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977, Macmillan, 2006
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