Since 1967, Israel has been engaged in constructing and expanding Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. Today nearly half a million settlers reside in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. This is a consequence of a broad variety of strategies of legitimization and modes of implementing policies which have been deployed with varying intensity over the last four decades.
While the enterprise in its entirety stands in stark contrast to both international law and to the requirements needed to realize the establishment of a Palestinian state – and as such the much debated two-state solution – the construction work continues on the ground.
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