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Are moving in to the middle of palestinian areas, it's going to be just that much harder to separate, that much harder to imagine transferring sovereignty and that is exactly the outcome that some are purposely accelerating. let's be clear, settlement expansion has nothing to do with israel's security, many settlements actually increase the security burden on the israeli defense forces and leaders of the settler movement are motivated by ideological imperatives that ignore legitimate palestinian aspirations. among the most troubling illustrations of this point has been the proliferation of set...

Are moving into the middle of palestinian areas, it's going to be just that much harder to separate. that much harder to imagine transferring sovereignty. and that is exactly the outcome that some are purposefully accelerating. let's be clear. settlement expansion has nothing to do with israel's security. many settlements actually increase the security burden on the israeli defense forces and leaders of the settler movement are motivated by ideological imperatives that ignore legitimate palestinian aspirations. among the most troubling illustrations of this point has been the proliferation of ...

Oslo accords which launched efforts that made a comprehensive and lasting peace possible, the number of settlers has increased by 355,000. the total settler population in the west bank east and jerusalem now exceeds 590,000. nearly 90,000 settlers are living east of the separation barrier that was created by israel itself. and just since july, 2016, when the middle east quartet issued a report highlighting international concern about a systematic process of land seizures, settlement expansions and legalizations, israel has advanced plans for more than 2,600 new settlement units. yet rather tha...