Palestinian-EU construction placard in Area C, photo courtesy of the authorEXECUTIVE SUMMARY: “Area C,” which makes up about 60% of the biblical lands of Judea and Samaria (known as the West Bank since their 1950 annexation by Jordan), is making news these days. This time, the hot button issue is the illegal Palestinian settlements that are sprouting up across the region. These settlements shred the last scraps that remain of the Oslo Accords, which propelled the idea of the “two-state solution” for a generation.
The funding for these illegal Palestinian settlements, which amounts to hundreds of millions of euros annually, comes …read more