The Perpetual 'Plan' for West Bank Dispossession
What's actually happening: FIRST INSTANCE: The 1967 Allon Plan. Following the 1967 Six-Day War, then-Israeli Labor Minister Yigal Allon proposed a plan to annex a strip of territory along the Jordan River, East Jerusalem and the Etzion Bloc, while returning heavily populated Palestinian areas to Jordanian or Palestinian control. This laid the blueprint for maintaining strategic control while
minimizing demographic integration. Though never formally adopted in its entirety, its principles—settlement blocs, bypass roads, and limited Palestinian autonomy—have underpinned subsequent policies. REPETITIONS: 1979: World Court Condemns Settlements. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) unequivocally stated that Israeli settlements in the occupied territories were illegal under
international law, a position reiterated by virtually every UN resolution since. Yet, settlement construction surged under governments like Menachem Begin's, legitimizing a civilian presence explicitly designed to alter the demographic and geographic reality. (UN Security Council Resolution 446, 1979) 1993-2000: Oslo Accords Annexation by Stealth. The Oslo Accords, despite their promise of a
two-state solution, created Areas A, B, and C in the West Bank. Area C, comprising over 60% of the West Bank, remained under full Israeli security and administrative control. This framework, initially temporary, became a de facto mechanism for continued settlement expansion and resource appropriation, effectively embedding Israeli control over the most valuable Palestinian lands. The population of