Displacement and Physical Resilience

Reports from local, Israeli, and international human rights organizations, in addition to institutions of the Palestinian Authority, indicate an increasing pace of the displacement of Bedouin communities and Palestinian citizens from Area "C", especially from the eastern region of the West Bank, including the Jordan Valley. The annual report from the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission for 2025 mentions the displacement of 13 Palestinian Bedouin communities, comprising 197 families with a total of 1,090 individuals, in a step that reflects a systematic policy of forced uprooting aimed at emptying the land of its original inhabitants to favor colonial expansion. At the beginning of 2026, the pace of displacement of these communities intensified through heightened assaults by settlers and tightening the noose around these communities via the arbitrary practices of the Israeli occupation forces and government measures aimed at dispossessing Palestinians of their land.

The Israeli government has effectively bypassed the option of a two-state solution based on the borders of June 4, 1967, through settlement activities and cutting up the West Bank through settlement on one hand, and the use of checkpoints and gates to restrict the movement of Palestinians on the other hand. This is in addition to clear American support, whether through statements by the U.S. president regarding the small size of Israel in the larger Middle East or what was mentioned in the "Deal of the Century", or statements from the U.S. ambassador in Israel, Mike Huckabee, which extend beyond the land of Palestine to the biblical right over Greater Israel "from the Euphrates to the Nile".

The recent statements from Ambassador Huckabee align with the ideology of the ruling Likud Party regarding long-term ambitions, which was unexpected by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who awaited an American promise similar to the Balfour Declaration, granting him control over the West Bank and Gaza Strip to establish the state of Israel from the river to the sea as a second step in the path towards Greater Israel.

Eradicating the idea of a Palestinian state from the ground up through measures enforcing geographical facts does not fulfill the colonial purpose without displacing Palestinians or the majority of them, so they become a politically weak minority and culturally melting like indigenous peoples in the United States and Australia. This displacement occurs through two main phases: the first is the forced transfer of populations from Area "C", which has a large area and low population density, to Area "B", which is security-controlled by Israelis and where administrative authority is conveyed; the second phase involves confining Palestinians in the geographically narrow "A" areas, isolated service islands with high population density and economic weakness, pushing Palestinians to emigrate abroad.

This "displacement" policy fundamentally relies on the element of time and the ability to establish an irreversible reality; in other words, according to the logic of physics, "time and motion" to understand the interaction between the various forces acting on the body. Thus, calculating speed allows for the discovery of patterns and predictions of outcomes and design solutions. Meanwhile, resilience pertains to stillness, stability, and the ability to bear burdens; in physics logic, it refers to analyzing loads in physical systems in a state of static equilibrium, which is the state where the system is either at rest or its center of gravity is moving at a constant speed.

While the political reading of the Israeli action "displacement" and the Palestinian action "resilience" is not mechanistic, it also relates to multiple political, social, economic, and cultural factors, in addition to national sentiment and reactions from the international community, to understand the act of "displacement" and the reaction of "resilience". Yet, stillness and stability in the Palestinian case do not bode well for withstanding the test of time and motion against the Israelis after losing many factors of self-strength for advancement.