Green Line

Just to put numbers in perspective, the Gaza envelope is about 60,000 people, Israeli citizens, and the Kibbutzim and the Yishuvim, et cetera.

Central Israel... bordering the Green Line is about 5.5 million people.

Right.

Okay, so the trauma and the damage would be tremendous.

And there was a lot of we'll see if the elections committee, what they do with that information, if they just let it go.

But we know that a lot of really nasty stuff.

Is there a center like yours that works in the Israeli Arab sector? Because that green line is very, you know...

So I'll tell you something interesting.

There are two groups of distinct Palestinians when we think of today's modern Israel.

There's those that live within what's called the Green Line, that were part of Israel prior to 1967.

These are Arab Israelis and today have full rights, and the full rights came immediately.

It was at one particular moment.

I think it is.

It never really had a good chance of existing.

I mean, yes, there is a multi-ethnic within the green line, as long as the Arab population is 20, 25%, then the answer is yes, Israel can live that way and happily live that way.

but a 50-50 situation where Israel became binational state with the Palestinians and the Israelis together.

It's a name that was created by Jordan when Jordan conquered the territory.

They then agreed to a temporary ceasefire with the Israelis, and that's called the Armistice Line or the Green Line.

And they called it the West Bank because they were on the east bank of the Jordan River, and this new territory they'd captured was called the West Bank or the West Bank of the Jordan River.

And It's a new name.

Many people object to the term West Bank for this reason.

One thing the West Bank is useful for, and maybe Israelis need to get a better name for this, is that Judea doesn't accurately reflect the territory.

Judea spills over the Green Line.

It's the Judean hills.

This is after 1948.

It's sometimes referred to as Green Line Israel or 1948 Israel.

It's a rather small state.

And in that small state, as a result of all the ethnic cleansing, roughly 20% of the population is Palestinian, uh, and roughly 80% of the population, uh, is comprised of Israeli Jews.

Uh, and you remember I told you that when Israel was created in 1948, it ended up with only 20% of its population being comprised of Palestinians.

Just think about that.

The Israel that's created, Green Line Israel, which is created in 1948, 20% of its population is Palestinians.

And the reason the Israelis ended up with 20% of the population being Palestinians is they ethnically cleansed huge numbers of Palestinians from what became Green Line Israel.

They were armistice lines.

That's why the line separating the, um, Israel proper from the West Bank is called the Green Line.

These were armistice lines, okay? Not, not accepted partition lines.

But okay, so anyway, from 67, from 67, that was the point where they began to acquire, formally acquire more of the Palestinian territories than was partitioned in, in originally, uh, under the mandate.

Sorry about that.

Th- this has been the goal for, for going on 60 years now.

Is that the Green Line? I think it is.

I hope it is.

Right

... anybody that's been sanctioned, you are not gonna make a distinction between who lives inside the green line and who lives outside the green line.

Right.

For you, there is no green line.

All there is is a red line.

Israel.

So the... what you're saying is companies have lots of options.

There's tons of countries in the world.

And I think that's, uh, that's something that, that Smotrich and Ben-Gvir and, and the fact that they're also settlers, you know, they, they feel very strongly about.

Uh, how possible is it that we can see, might see more of this happening inside Green Line Israel as well? I've seen some reports of settlers moving into heavily Palestinian Arab areas, like in, in the Galilee, um, and basically setting up shop kind of on the outskirts of majority P- of Palesti- majority Palestinian towns, um, in a way that looks kind of similar to what happens in the West Bank, right? That the kind of like...

And I've seen some reference to, to this in, in, you know, in, in the press.

And i- is it...

Um, and I think that reaction is revealing because, you know, economically, settlement exports are relatively small.

Uh, but politically, uh, a trade ban attacks the Israeli government's ins- insistence that settlements should be treated as an ordinary p- uh, part of Israel proper.

So it kind of converts the principle of differentiation, like Israel on the one side of the green line, occupied territory on the other, from diplomatic language into, uh, an economic penalty.

And I think the immediate effect of these settlement me- measures will probably remain modest, um, but their, their strategic significance could be much larger because sanctions often work through escalation and, um, uh, private sector risk rather than through the am- initial amount of trade lost.