Occupation works by keeping a state permanently unsettled and non-sovereign

Evidence

Permanent temporariness entails that such geostrategic sites are states without (self-)sovereignty, always in formation and deformation. They are permanently unsettled so that they can be violently disciplined at any and all moments, their resources destroyed or redirected, their inhabitants always on edge, their cartographic boundaries porous and shifting, their jurisdiction open incessantly to renegotiation. Their temporariness will remain permanent – lasting, continuous – unless and until accepting of the terms of neoliberal indebtedness economically and politically predicated. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1812

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘permanent temporariness’ — the paradoxical state-form of occupied territories like Palestine, unsettled so they can be endlessly disciplined.
• DEEPTHINKING: This redefines how we understand occupation itself — not a temporary anomaly but a deliberate, stable state of permanent unsettlement engineered so violence is always justified. A paradigm-shifting definition of the occupied-state form.
• XREF: connects to: Permanent occupation requires discounting the occupied people’s full humanity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1855