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The Matrix: How to Create Facts on the Ground

1. Expropriate land and exert constant pressures (including threats, extortion and bribes) on Palestinians to sell their lands.
2. Locate settlements strategically so as to maintain control over the Territories even while "giving up" territory.
3. Carve the Occupied Territories into areas that do not permit freedom of movement. Areas A, B, C and D in the West Bank, areas H-1 and H-2 in Hebron, Yellow, Green, Blue and White Areas in Gaza, and "open green spaces" of restricted housing in Palestinian East Jerusalem are good examples.
4. Construct a massive system of highways and bypass roads to link settlements and create barriers between Palestinian areas.
5. Control movement through the imposition of closed military areas, establishing a thick web of internal checkpoints and maintaining control of all border crossings.
6. Locate army bases in strategic sites, occupying land while keeping weaponry ready for reasserting control.
7. Construct industrial parks that give new life to isolated settlements, exploit cheap Palestinian labor while denying it access to Israel, rob Palestinian cities of their economic vitality, control key locations and ensure Israel's ability to continue dumping its industrial wastes onto the West Bank.
8. Maintain control over aquifers and other natural resources.
9. Exploit holy places as pretexts for maintaining a "security presence."

The Matrix: How to Weave a Web of Bureaucracy

1. "Close" the West Bank and Gaza permanently, thereby violating freedom of movement and goods, impoverishing the Palestinian population and destroying the Palestinian economy.
2. Issue permits restricting freedom of movement both within the country and abroad.
3. Zone land so as to freeze the natural development of Palestinian towns and villages. Building permits, enforced by house demolitions, arrests, fines and daily harassment, work well.
4. Draw expansive "master plans" around settlements, and then claim that settlement building has been "frozen."
5. Restrict planting of crops. Destroy others, like the hundreds of thousands of olive and fruit trees uprooted since 1967.
6. Employ licensing and inspection of Palestinian businesses as a means of political control.