Includes bibliographical references and index.

Historical and theoretical background -- The new millennium : a new phase in the old conflict -- Control systems, ethnocracy and apartheid -- A complete Israeli victory? -- The Palestinian authority's financial and operational dependency -- American policy -- The settlement-security symbiosis -- The development and cost of the settlements -- Settlement expansion after 2000 -- Jerusalem in focus -- Institutional collaboration -- The social profile -- The IDF's dilemma -- The Israeli control system -- The principles -- Controlling movement -- Five Palestinian groups -- Methods of rule --The changing pattern of the conflict -- Back to 1948? -- Colonial practices in the service of an ethno-security regime -- From a two-state solution to a one-state problem.