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Is Economic Investment a Political Fact on the Ground?
Is economic construction a kind of irreversible political fact on the ground that then needs to be taken into account afterwards? This is a really fascinating question to me. The strategy of the israeli state has been, since 67, to quotenote, create facts on the ground by way of large scale settlement. And the purpose of the informal settlers, the illegal settlers, is to do the same. In doing so, imean they not only, as it were, create sociological conditions. They build communities, which it's hard to shift. But remarkably, they also have at least a sort of residual link to the law. I don't know whether turkey's mounting investment in northern