This study is a revised and expanded edition of one on the same topic and by the same author that was published by the IPS in English in 1987, under the title "Creating Facts: Israel and the Palestinians and the West Bank." This updated edition covers developments in the West Bank from 1987-1990, addressing each from the same angles discussed in the original study. It adds essential new material about Israeli occupation policies and practices, the situation of the Palestinian people under occupation, the settlements, and the national Palestinian resistance until the first year of the Intifada.