Index: Concepts, F

• Fait accompli — The politics of creating irreversible facts on the ground — settlements, transfer, fragmentation — that Razek says Israel mastered under Oslo.
• Fascism — In Toscano’s account, the fascist logic immanent to settler-colonialism, disavowed by liberal Zionism as an exception.
• Federalism — A constitutional design dividing power between federal and regional governments, assessed in Masri’s Chapter 9 of Rethinking Statehood with territorial and combined territorial-consociational variants.
• Feudal-Clerical Leadership — Kanafani’s first enemy: the semi-feudal, semi-religious leadership heading the national movement until 1948.
• Fortress Israel — Pappe’s term for the Zionist project as a ‘white’ fortress in a ‘black’ world, defended by majority-at-all-costs, walls and refusal of return.
• Frame of reference — Christison’s term for the Israel-centered body of assumptions bounding U.S. thinking and policy on Palestine.
• Freedom of Expression — The right founded in Israeli law by Agranat’s Kol ha-Am opinion (1953), grounded in democracy as self-rule and the Declaration, in Lahav’s account.