I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
Sovereignty no longer resides in the territory itself, but in the control of the territory. And localisation is an inherent part of that territorial control.
Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.
Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation.
Today, the army only occupies the territory once the war is over.
Whoever controls the territory possesses it.
All the members of the dog family - domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, dingoes - are very aware of territory. A group must control its own territory - you can't have others taking it from you, because then you won't have enough food.
Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.
