Occupation reproduces itself by shaping the occupying state’s militarized self-understanding

Evidence

Occupation extends the possibility – the license, the logic – of Israel’s political economy as militaristically driven, as a war economy, as a military economic complex serviced by a state. The military orders Israel’s regime of truth, as the late Tanya Reinhart made clear shortly before her untimely passing, shaping both how Israelis understand themselves and how the state structures conditions of life and death, the more so in the wake of Ariel Sharon’s command. Occupation is both inevitable prompt and outcome of this militarily mobilized state self-conception, in a sense circular analytic implicatures of each other. Occupation is to Israel’s military as blood is to the heart, lubricant to the pump. It not only primes the pump; it requires the switch remain incessantly on, demanding that the pumping should not cease or slow down in a state geared to the exercise of its central instrumentality. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 665