More than 1 million Arabs are citizens of Israel. And over the years, some 350,000 Jewish Israelis have moved to settlements in the West Bank. If the Israelis and Palestinians were to make peace and set a formal border, what would happen to all these people?
The Arabs, most of them Palestinians, mostly belong to families that stayed in their homes that wound up on the western, or Israeli side, of the ceasefire line following the 1948 war at Israel's declaration of independence. They hold Israeli passports and enjoy the rights of citizenship. But many experience discrimination and a challenging sense of dual identity.
The Jewish Israeli settlers in the West Bank live on land that Israel's military has occupied since the 1967 war. They have chose these homes for a variety of reasons: religious, Zionist and economic. Palestinians — and most of the world — consider the ceasefire line, known as the Green Line, as the basis for a future border dividing Israel and a Palestinian state, and the Jewish settlements, guarded by Israeli soldiers, illegally built in occupied territory.
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