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Have the expansionists won?

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Published: 3 June 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Since capturing the West Bank in 1967, Israelis have clashed over what to do with it. The expansionists won. – Dan Ephron – The Washington Post 01.06.17
In any given year since the 1970s, the settler community has grown at least twice as fast as Israel’s general population. The combined mass of the settlements, physical and political, raises a question on this anniversary of the war: Is a broad Israeli withdrawal even conceivable anymore?

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