Israel's successive Labor governments beginning soon after…

Israel's successive Labor governments beginning soon after the June 1967 War have established settlements in the territories despite Labor's commitment to exchange occupied territories for peace, and have refrained from dismantling illegal settlements, such as those established in 1968 at Qiryat Arba in Hebron by Rabbi Moshe Levinger and others set up by the extremist settler movement Gush Emunim.

By 1976, more than thirty settlements have been established on the West Bank.