Israel is not occupying Palestine, Palestinians are occupying Judea & Samaria — if you don't get this, what part of the following doesn't click?

You can’t be an “occupier” with respect to your own land which you have given someone else permission to be in.

• No Arab state with the exception of Jordan's occupation from '49-'67 ever ruled there. ->> Timeline went Ottomans → Brits → Jordan (illegal) → Israel.

• International law / treaties integral to formation of Israel provided the Jews national rights to all land west of the Jordan River, including Judea & Samaria.
  ->> 1949 lines were armistice lines, explicitly NOT borders. The distinction is important because it illustratws Israel has agreed to give up its ownership of the land. ->>Israel took the land BACK in 1967 from Jordan (who 'stole' it in ’48).

• Oslo accords granted Palestinians rights to civil administration in areas A and B - nothing beyond that was ever conveyed ->> The hope of the Oslo Accords – that Palestinians would prove to be peaceful neighbors that Israel could live with (in which case potentially giving the Palestinians area C + ownership of areas A+B would not be suicide) has never come to pass ->> For all intents and purposes, Palestinians are renters who don't actually have to pay rent and don't have a definitive "move out" date.

TL;DR: Judea & Samaria are the Jewish homeland by history & archaeology but most importantly, by international law.

#This obviously create a dilemma – how to move forward?

• There are Palestinians — what happens to the descendants of Arabs who fought against Israel in '48 and '56 and '67 and '73 and '82 and '00 and '06 and '23-present?
• There is no question that not every single Palestinian means harm to Israel and it needs to be relocated, that said there is also no question that the number of Palestinians who do mean harm to Israel is enough that it creates a reasonable expectation of armed attack." ->> Considering Palestinians' history it's impossible to imagine any reasonable measures or assurance that would mitigate the risk ->> Given that there is no reasonable way to understand or distinguish who belongs in group A and who belongs in group B, Israel would be within it's rights to compel relocation of J&S residents under Article 51 of the UN charter.

Solution 1: status quo remains unchanged until Palestinians become peaceful or Palestinians decide to leave because they are unhappy Solution 2: revoke authorization for Palestinian administration throughout J&S and turn the land into an uninhabited security buffer (probably with the hopes of at some point in the future putting the land to use if/when a security buffer on Israel's eastern border is no longer necessary. Ideal relocation destinations that come to mind could include Gaza, Egypt, and Southern Syria. Jordan and Lebanon are also obviously candidates but more problematic ones due to the problems that Palestinians have caused in both of those countries. Solution 3: the Messiah shows up despite the fact a secular Jewish government exists within Eretz Israel and we all die or ascend or something

tl;dr The “occupation” narrative is 60-year-old propaganda which makes sense to anyone who doesn't actually understand the facts of the situation

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