You might be interested in this history of West Bank Settlements at the Israel Policy Forum. If you don’t think it’s fair and balanced, I would appreciate hearing why.
You might be interested in this history of West Bank Settlements at the Israel Policy Forum. If you don’t think it’s fair and balanced, I would appreciate hearing why.
Not too bad. It does say that Arabs/Palestinians whatever you want to call them have been living in that area well before 1967. It makes the case that the goal of Israel is to populate the entire West Bank but also claims that it was slowing down so it wasn’t going to happen. However, the piece only covers up until 2020 and we know that settlements have been accelerated with a record number of new ones in the last year.
I also think it underplays the difficulties of day to day life. The settlers occasionally get attacked and hassled. Yes, but they are protected by the IDF and the Palestinians have no such protection. The settlers also attack and hassle the Palestinians and the IDF protects them. Play that out. There used to be lots of videos, since taken down, of settler kids taunting and throwing rocks at Palestinian kids under the watchful eyes of IDF troops so the Palestinian kids couldn’t retaliate. Seems pretty clear that Palestinians on the West Bank are second class.
Steve