The settlements are illegal under international law. The entire international community accepts this.
Israel can hire all the shyster lawyers it wants, but nothing will change this truth.
The settlements are illegal, Israel's own government said much of them were built on "stolen" land.
In February 2008, the Civil Administration stated that the land on which more than a third of West Bank settlements was built had been expropriated by the IDF for "security purposes."[128] The unauthorized seizure of private Palestinian land was defined by the Civil Administration itself as 'theft.'[129] According to B'Tselem, more than 42 percent of the West Bank are under control of the Israeli settlements, 21 percent of which was seized from private Palestinian owners, much of it in violation of the 1979 Israeli Supreme Court decision.[60]
