Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Appendices
- Preface
- The Israeli Economy from the Foundation of the State through the 21st Century
- One Introduction
- Two The Economy of the Yishuv and Its Legacy
- Three The Economy, 1948–1985
- Four Macro-Economic Developments, Growth, and Policy
- Five Globalization and High Technology
- Six Defense: Service or Burden?
- Seven Israel and the Palestinians
- Eight The Economics of Religion
- Nine The Arab Minority
- Ten Demographic Developments and Socioeconomic Divisions
- Eleven Conclusions
- Appendices
- References
- Index
Seven - Israel and the Palestinians
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Appendices
- Preface
- The Israeli Economy from the Foundation of the State through the 21st Century
- One Introduction
- Two The Economy of the Yishuv and Its Legacy
- Three The Economy, 1948–1985
- Four Macro-Economic Developments, Growth, and Policy
- Five Globalization and High Technology
- Six Defense: Service or Burden?
- Seven Israel and the Palestinians
- Eight The Economics of Religion
- Nine The Arab Minority
- Ten Demographic Developments and Socioeconomic Divisions
- Eleven Conclusions
- Appendices
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines the costs of building, maintaining, and guarding Israeli settlements in the West Bank and other territories that Israel occupied in 1967. It then looks at how Israel’s relations with the Palestinians have affected the economy.
Settlements
In the June 1967 Six Day War, Israel occupied the Golan Heights, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Sinai Peninsula. Soon after, it began to build the first settlements for Jews in those areas. At the end of 1967, the head of the Ministerial Committee for Settlements, Yigal Allon, began to plan the state’s settlement map that envisaged the establishment of Jewish settlements in the eastern part of the West Bank. The aim was to create a security border along the Jordan River valley on the eastern slopes of the West Bank hill ridge, over which Israel would retain rule. The hills of the West Bank with its cities would be returned to Jordan in the framework of a peace treaty whereas 40 percent of the West Bank would remain under Israeli sovereignty. An Israeli civilian presence in the Jordan Valley was in accordance with the security ideology that was in the Allon Plan. A number of settlements were also constructed in the Gaza Strip.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010