West Bank Settlements Are Legal under the Oslo Accords—and They’re Not Expanding
How can Israel sign a peace deal if the international community doesn’t recognize its prior commitments?
July 28, 2016
West Bank Settlements Are Legal under the Oslo Accords—and They’re Not Expanding
How can Israel sign a peace deal if the international community doesn’t recognize its prior commitments?
Earlier this month, the Middle East Quartet—a group comprising representatives of the U.S., Russia, the EU, and the UN, self-tasked with bringing a resolution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict—produced a report that, inter alia, complained of the growth of the “West Bank settler population” since 2009 and the construction of new houses for Jews in the area. But, argues Ahron Shapiro, the statistics cited by the Quartet are misleading, perhaps mendaciously so. In fact, he writes, the settlements are demographically “treading water.” And that’s not the only problem:
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