United Nations Security Council's resolution 2334, that Israel cease all construction in the territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 war, assumes Israel is occupying land illegally. However, Israel regained the territory in its own self-defence.
Sustaining the UN's declaration is the long-standing belief in the evolving justice to the two-state solution; the idea of creating an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. Until recently, the repeated rejection of peace offers from Israel, and Palestinian terrorism, has inhibited serious discussion of any other policy option.
Recent polls in Israel have steadily increased the support for Israeli law applying in all parts of Judea and Samaria. For 20 years now Israelis have been frustrated as government after government has made efforts to appease the unappeasable Palestinians.
Netanyahu has pointed out that a Palestinian state within the borders of Israel would have to be demilitarised, without control over its borders or airspace. Hardly a sovereign nation. He has also pointed out that the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip brought Israel neither peace nor security. The territory has become a base for Iran-backed terrorists.