What is the impact of Israeli land policies and the settlement industry in the West Bank?
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Demographic engineering (DE) is the intentional alteration of a territory’s demographic as a means of self-determination by ethnicity. The State of Israel continues to leverage the authority granted to its military, as the occupying power of the West Bank, to exponentially expand the Israeli civilian settlement enterprise. They institute land policies allowing for the land acquisition and planning and development that created an avenue for DE methods of economic incentivization and ethnic consolidation through the Israeli civilian settlement enterprise. To maintain the status quo of the territory, it is imperative the Israeli government issue a settlement freeze to encourage permanent peace agreement negotiations to commence, given their political salience. The PA and PLO, international state actors, international civil society organizations, and Israeli civil society organizations each have a key role to play to achieve a settlement freeze.
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Prepared by:
The Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem
