{"id":10607,"date":"2024-07-06T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/?p=10607"},"modified":"2026-06-06T19:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:42:27","slug":"the-silent-overhaul-changing-the-nature-of-israeli-control-in-the-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2024\/07\/the-silent-overhaul-changing-the-nature-of-israeli-control-in-the-west-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silent Overhaul: Changing the nature of Israeli control in the West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofekcenter.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Silent-Overhaul-FULL-EN.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"503\" height=\"669\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/The-Silent-Overhaul-COVER.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/The-Silent-Overhaul-COVER.webp 503w, https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/The-Silent-Overhaul-COVER-480x638.webp 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 503px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofekcenter.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Silent-Overhaul-FULL-EN.pdf\">https:\/\/www.ofekcenter.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Silent-Overhaul-FULL-EN.pdf<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current government\u2019s policies and actions are an apex towards realizing a strategy designed to fulfill a political vision of applying full Israeli sovereignty to the West Bank while establishing a reality of Jewish supremacy and relegating the Palestinians living in the territory to the smallest possible geographical area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,965,944],"tags":[1613,153,439,40,1605,158,1606],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-10607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-recommended","category-reports-on-palestine","tag-and-settler-colonialism","tag-international-law","tag-israeli-defense-forces","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-israeli-settlements","tag-occupied-territories","tag-settlers"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as <a href=\"https:\/\/aim.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder &amp; Emeritus Member of <a href=\"http:\/\/a4vpe.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at <a href=\"https:\/\/justvision.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/1994\/10\/homeland-oral-histories-of-palestine-and-palestinians-book-recommended\" rel=\"noopener\">HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamBahour\" rel=\"noopener\">@SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10610,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607\/revisions\/10610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10607"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=10607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}