Could settlers stay in a future Palestinian state?

The violence by settlers against Palestinian farmers indicates why settlers cannot stay and live inside a future Palestinian state.
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Palestinians argue with Israeli soldiers after Palestinian farmers said they were stopped by Israeli army and settlers from working in their farm land in Halhul town near Karme Tzur settlement, north of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, Sept. 11, 2015. - REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma
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Akiva Eldar

 

The New York Times reported Dec. 3 that the new peace plan being hammered out these days by the White House would include an option enabling Jews to live under Palestinian sovereignty. US President Donald Trump already said back in February that as far as he’s concerned, “I am looking at two-state, and one-state, and I like the one that both parties like.”

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