What a curious comment. People living in "illegal outposts" are "law-abiding citizens"?
This attitude is a big chunk at the root of the entire conflict.
Also most of the world (including the US) considers all settlements (and therefore, settlers) to be illegal, so there's that.
Aside from the fact that it's explicitly illegal under law, even in abstract general terms your comment makes no sense.
Hopefully I’m wrong. But tides have shifted in the opposite direction.
Then came the Camp David Summit, and Ariel Sharon going to Temple Mount... Finally what shattered that belief in me was watching "Checkpoint" by Yoav Shamir back around 2003-2004. The West Bank was already shattered in small pockets, the IDF was very aggressive against them, all of the hope I had carried was absolutely shattered when I saw how life in the West Bank really was for Palestinians.
It's an absolute shame what the extremists on both sides created, I don't see another figure like Rabin and Arafat existing in their nations for the next few decades, the cycle of violence got so much worse...
This part I don't understand. How do these organisations "provide" this land? Do they buy it?
Palestinians live on and usually over the green line, in areas where they can't even provide basic necessities (like water) and leave huge areas where they COULD live entirely empty.
Let's be honest here: the only thing Palestinians are doing there is not living, they're trying to conquer, and at least partially succeeding.
There's no comparison whatsoever between these ancient (and continuously inhabited) municipalities and the modern Israeli settlements. (The first 3 anyway. Beit 'Awwa was settled in antiquity, then abandoned, then re-settled again the 19th century, with some 7,000 inhabitants by 1948).
Obviously Palestinians are doing this too, and have been doing it for far longer than Israeli settlers have done it.
Doing "this" as in what the settlers are doing, no. Nothing even remotely like it.
Palestinians live in areas where they can't even provide basic necessities (like water)
Right, because of a long-term strategy of the Israeli government to deny them such.
and leave huge areas where they COULD live entirely empty.
If so that's their problem, not yours.
Let's be honest here: the only thing Palestinians are doing there is not living, they're trying to conquer, and at least partially succeeding.
They're not conquering anything. It was already theirs to begin with.
This post is easily one of the most bizarre attempted analogies I've ever seen on HN.
