Facts on the ground explained

Facts on the ground is a diplomatic and geopolitical term that means the situation in reality as opposed to in the abstract. The term was popularised in the 1970s in discussions of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict to refer to Israeli settlements built in the occupied West Bank, which were intended to establish permanent Israeli footholds in Palestinian territory.

Rashid Khalidi wrote in 2010:

See also

• De facto
• Ex factis jus oritur
• Glossary of French words and expressions in English § Fait accompli
• Ground truth
• Realpolitik
• Revanchism
• Operation Uvda
• Status quo ante bellum

References

Bibliography

• Book: Berridge . G. R. . Lloyd . Lorna . 2012 . The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Diplomacy . 3rd . Basingstoke, England . Palgrave Macmillan . 10.1057/9781137017611 . 978-1-137-01761-1.
• Khalidi . Rashid . Rashid Khalidi . 15 April 2010 . Bad Faith in the Holy City . . https://web.archive.org/web/20100418225547/http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/66198/rashid-khalidi/bad-faith-in-the-holy-city . 18 April 2010.
• Book: Ober, Josiah . Josiah Ober . 2006 . Solon and the Horoi: Facts on the Ground in Ancient Athens . Blok . Josine . Josine Blok . Lardinois . André P. M. H. . Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches . Leiden, Netherlands . Brill . 441–456 . 10.1163/9789047408895_020 . 978-90-04-14954-0.
• Rosen . David . David M. Rosen . Fall 2007 . Searching for 'Facts' on the Ground . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080215014543/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/current/articles/fall2007/searching-for-facts-on-the-ground.html . 15 February 2008.

Further reading

• Book: Gorenberg, Gershom . Gershom Gorenberg . 2006 . The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967–1977 . New York . Times Books . 978-1-4668-0054-0.