Are Israeli Settlements the Barrier to Peace?

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🗓️ 5 January 2019

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Is Israel's policy of building civilian communities in the West Bank the reason there's no peace agreement with the Palestinians? Or would there still be no peace even if Israel removed all of its settlements and evicted Israeli settlers, as it did in Gaza in 2005? Renowned Harvard professor and legal scholar Alan Dershowitz explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is Israel's policy of building civilian communities in the area known as the West Bank the reason there is no permanent peace between Israel and the Palestinians?
0:08.3	The answer to that question despite all the sound and fury regarding the so-called settlement issue is no.
0:15.4	The Israeli settlements in the West Bank are not the major barrier to a peace agreement.
0:20.8	A little historical context will make this clear.
0:23.4	For two decades before June of 1967, the West Bank, including much of Jerusalem, was controlled by Jordan.
0:30.2	During that time, a time when Israel did not have a single settlement.
0:33.9	There were numerous Palestinian terror attacks against the nation's state of the Jewish people.
0:38.8	In other words, Palestinians committed terror attacks against Israel when there were no settlements.
0:46.5	And they committed terror attacks against Israel when there were settlements.
0:51.3	If Israel were to pull out of every single settlement in the West Bank tomorrow, it's unlikely that anything much would change.
0:58.7	In fact, if history is any indicator, Israel could be worse off.
1:02.7	In 2005, Israel abandoned every single community, every house, every farm, every structure it had built in the Gaza Strip.
1:10.2	How did the Palestinians of Gaza react?
1:12.5	They launched thousands of rockets and numerous other terror attacks against the nation's state of the Jewish people.
1:18.8	The attacks continued to this very day.
1:21.2	And every year, the range of these rockets get longer and their payloads more lethal.
1:25.5	Only a very sophisticated Israeli anti-missile defense keeps the country secure.
1:30.6	Can you blame Israel for not wanting to risk a two front rocket war?
1:35.0	But Israel is no right to be in the West Bank at all many say.
1:38.3	So permit me, a law professor at Harvard, to say that on the basis of international law, this position is incorrect.
1:46.5	Military occupations are clearly permitted under international law following an aggressive attack by a neighboring state.
1:54.1	Jordan, Israel's neighbor to the east, attacked Israel in 1967, despite Israel's repeated efforts to keep Jordan out of the six day war.
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