Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/59817 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
DIIS Report No. 2012:08
Publisher: 
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
Changing with rapid speed, the current political geography of the occupied Palestinian territory has de facto come to undermine a two-state solution and is turning the official aim and end point of international negotiations at best into a naive mirage for policymakers and at worst into a facade for a very different political game playing out in the occupied territory of the West Bank and Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem: that of Israel's ongoing territorial expansion into Palestinian land. The study shows how the settlement policies inside what are internationally-recognised Palestinian territories are not merely undermining the realisation of the two-state solution: the territorial claims put forward and pursued in practice and their anchoring in strategies of legitimisation reach far beyond international legal standards. This reveals a very different political narrative embedded at the core of the conflict from that projected by those images often appearing in the mainstream media and policy circles: a narrative of an ongoing struggle over land detached from any 'Peace Process' measures.
ISBN: 
978-87-7605-504-2
Document Type: 
Research Report

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