If this is correct, then it seems that land-wise most of the settlements would be gone. The settlements and settlers that remained would've been part of Israel, not part of what would have become Palestine. No Israeli settlers would've been left in what would've become Palestine. Maybe we're having trouble communicating because we interpret the phrase "become Palestine" differently. When I use it, I mean what would be the state of Palestine after such a peace deal. It's even more confusing here because the correct tense would be "would have become Palestine" since it's about a counterfactual world in which Arafat had accepted the proposal.
strong doublespeak going on here. make peace by killing everyone else. stop illegal immigration by making it legal. take another 50% of the west bank and call it israel and there are still no israeli settlers in palestine.
most settlements might have been gone but most settlers would have remained. and the best palestinian land was to be exchanged for a few miles of israeli desert. the isolated outsposts barak offered to remove including the ones in gaza that eventually did get removed were always joke things to annoy the palestinians and present false "concessions" at negotiations to make israel look reasonable in front of world opinion
but i suppose we are talking at cross purposes. when i say palestine i mean the land over which jordan and egypt relinquished their claims in favour of the plo (not israel) 30 years ago. i base this on the 1967 borders and 242 and the principles of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the illegitimacy of occupying powers settling their civilian populations onto land they occupy for the purposes of altering demographics on the ground and annexing that land. when you say palestine you mean whatever territory happens to fall outside what israel decides it needs for its security and colonisation objectives at any given time.
I assume this is a response to the final question. It's hard to tell, but I think you're saying you would never have accepted South Africa "belongs to whites" and will never accept the land in Israel "belongs to Jews". Or did I misinterpret this too?
israel belongs to israel. land, ports and airspace outside of israel including jewish settlements and the borders with neighbouring states don't belong to israel.
You didn't directly answer the first two questions. However, what you're saying only makes sense if someone thinks of land as belonging to ethnic groups, not individuals. Presumably that's how you see the world. In addtion, it seems like your classification of land-to-ethnicity doesn't really depend on how long they've lived there (based on your South Africa response), so I'm not sure why you mentioned the fact that Arabs had ancestors living on that land for "100s of years." Presumably it doesn't matter how long they'd been there. You classify that land as "belonging to Arabs" just like South Africa "belongs to blacks" (I guess). It's not clear to me how you decided which parts of the world belong to which ethnic groups, but I guess it's not so important. All someone needs is a map with colors and conviction of being right.
its not clear to you because you don't acknowledge that everyone has the right to self determination and that international law exists.
whites living in south africa wasn't the problem. jews living in palestine in 1900 wasn't the problem. the problem was that they formed governments, took over the land and denied the natives civil and political rights. until palestinians are either granted citizenship by israel, the country under whose rule they are forced to live, or allowed to create their own state, the problem wont go away. there's no magical point in time at which the palestinians are going to become ok with the idea of being someone else's colony.