Wikipedia:WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration/Current Article Issues/Archive. Legality of Israeli settlements

Through a long process on the talk page, the following text established consensus in early 2011:

• The international community considers Israeli settlements in (the Golan Heights/the West Bank/East Jerusalem) illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.

In July 2012 the prior consensus was challenged with a finding of no consensus. That resulted in there both being no consensus for the systematic inclusion of the phrasing to article, but it also found no consensus for the removal of that phrasing from the articles. Currently the text is WP:STABLE in most articles. See WP:CCC for further details.

Guidance and further discussion

• Guidance on use from the original discussion at the talk page:
  • From LHvU: "there is agreement of the use of the wording in articles both of multi section length, and single section/stub standard"
  • According to LHvU's clarification: "I found that there was consensus for the wording per proposal 2, and for it to be included in the opening paragraph(s) of multi section articles, where it may be expanded per WP:LEDE in the article body, and to be used without further expansion in stub or very short articles."
  • According to LHvU at Arbitration enforcement: "Only in some articles, those which had a brief introduction and then a body of one or two sections, was there disagreement on how it was to be incorporated - but not if.
  • From T. Canens at Arbitration Enforcement: "As the objection has been made clear, I expect Nableezy [and presumably others] to either conform their future edits to the consensus wording as determined by LHvU, or obtain consensus for their new version."

• In 2012 further discussion took place here, with clarification here.