re: #11 Charles Johnson

The settlements aren’t helping, but they aren’t the obstacle to peace that Palestinians make them out to be. Settlements can be transferred and reassigned - it’s happened before - in Sinai after Camp David and even with the Gaza disengagement.

If a peace deal could ever be reached, there will be land swaps as part of that deal. That would necessarily include settlements being vacated or consolidated, with some of those settlements being given over to Palestinians for their use.

But the extremists will use the settlements as a cudgel - on both sides.