The Role of Israeli Settlement in Impeding the Establishment of a Palestinian State رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

This thesis discusses one of the most prominent topics of the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, centered on the conflict on the ground. The Palestinians are the owners of the right and suffer from the policy of expulsion from their land by successive Israeli settlements in favor of the settlement project in the West Bank. this study aimed to shed light on the policy of Israeli colonial settlement and its projects in the Palestinian territories and the geopolitical implications on the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state, especially in light of the continued official adherence to the two-state solution as a framework for resolving the conflict. This study has achieved its objective by tracking the various settlement projects and the way they are geographically distributed and the implications of this on the geographical connectivity of the Occupied Palestinian territories. this study has come up with several results, the most important of which are: the geographical distribution of settlement sites took the form of settlement belts around the governorates of the West Bank, in addition to the role of settlements in isolating Palestinian villages from major cities, in addition to the geographical control of most of the West Bank areas produced by settlements and their scattered locations