A Settler’s View of Israel’s Future

A Settler’s View of Israel’s Future
Ms. Glick thus concludes that the Jewish State is secure: Israel should assert Israeli law in the West Bank
and offer Israeli citizenship to its entire Arab population without fear of being outvoted.
Under their plan, Israel would assert Israeli law in Judea
and Samaria while Arabs living there would have Israeli residency and Jordanian citizenship.
14, 2017
HEBRON, West Bank — Last week, Israel’s Parliament passed a controversial bill
that allows the government to retroactively authorize contested West Bank Jewish communities by compensating previous Palestinian land claimants.
A second alternative, suggested by Israel’s education minister, Naftali Bennett, proposes annexation of only Area C — the territory in the West Bank as defined by
the Oslo Accords (about 60 percent by area), where a majority of the 400,000 settlers live — while offering Israeli citizenship to the relatively few Arabs there.
This inability to give a straight answer is a result of 30 years of bad policy
that has pressed Israel to create a Palestinian state in the historic Jewish heartland of Judea and Samaria, which the world calls the West Bank.
Caroline Glick, a Jerusalem Post journalist, wrote in her 2014 book, "The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for Peace in the Middle East,"
that, contrary to prevailing opinion, Jews are not in danger of losing a demographic majority in an Israel that includes Judea and Samaria.