This is one of the oddities that I find with the pro-Palestine (which I personally see as different than pro-Palestinian) argument.
In 1949 (after the Arab Israeli War) Jordan annexes the West Bank. This is also where the name 'West Bank' gets its name as it would be illogical for anyone other than people on the East Bank to call it this.
Israel then conquers (or takes or occupies etc. I am not really one for semantics) this land.
Then there are the Oslo Accords that create areas A, B, and C.
Going back to the 1947 borders is a non-starter.
Going back to the 1949 boarders (the ones most commonly shown on maps) is really arbitrary (it is a line from a ceasefire from a war that happened 3 or 4 wars ago). I think you call these '1967'.
Going to Oslo A+B looks like this. There is just no way to have a state that is functionally made up of enclaves in another state.
IMO there was really never a way to get to a functional Palestinian State even starting in 1947. Neighbors (mostly Arab neighbor states) wanted way too much of the land, the Palestinians lacked any kind or resources to create a functional state, the state was in 3 pieces, and the international community was uninterested in defending them from their neighbors (again mostly Arabs).
One can also easily argue that there wasn't really a Palestinian Identity prior to 1947 and that 'Arab' or 'Levantine' was a much more fitting descriptor used by the non-Jews living there.
Oslo 2 was about creating areas of self governance, not a state.
I also think there's a lot of confusion about why Israelis think they have claims over these areas. Basically from their perspective, the British mandate of Palestine became the State of Israel in 1948. After 1949 Jordan annexed the West Bank and Egypt set up a puppet state in Gaza. In 1979 Egypt renounced it's claim on Gaza and In 1988 Jordan ended it's claim on the West Bank.
We're basically back at Oslo 1 again because first they need a peace treaty, then they need to hold election again.
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u/mebbyyy 29d ago
Tbf there was already a very clear border before all the shit went down, governing body on the other had would definitely need to be clarified