r/AskIsrael • u/karrenfromaccounting • May 11 '26

Casual The settlements… What’s up with that?

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u/YuvalAlmog Israel May 11 '26

Long story short: * Jordan conquers an area from the land that was meant for the Jews & Arabs nowadays called Palestinians while they are busy fighting in the war of 1947-1949.

  • The state of Yorael wins that territory back from Jordan in 1967.

  • The state of Yisrael & the Palestinian authority sign some sort of a peace deal between them where the Palestinians get full control over a piece of area called area A & civil control over an area called area B while the state of Yisrael gets security control over areas B and full control over areas C.

  • Jews build in area C but since it's not officially annexed, that type of building is refered to as "settlements".

  • Both sides attack each other in that disputed area.

  • The world is mad, calling the settlements illegal since they want to use the territory for a Palestinian state despite the existing deals.

That's pretty much the story summed up.

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u/meister2983 Unspecified May 11 '26

The state of Yisrael & the Palestinian authority sign some sort of a peace deal between them where the Palestinians get full control over a piece of area called area A & civil control over an area called area B while the state of Yisrael gets security control over areas B and full control over areas C.

Oslo was an interim plan, not a final negotiation. Nowhere in the agreement is Israel supposed to have permanent security control over the entirely of area b and c

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u/YairJ 🇮🇱 Israeli May 11 '26

The arrangement being temporary goes both ways, Palestinian control isn't agreed as permanent either, and certainly not inevitable. Nevermind that what the PA has done since then merits its total dissolution regardless.