DEIR DIBWAN, WEST BANK: The Jewish settler outpost of Or Meir is small. A handful of prefabricated white shelters, it sits at the end of a short dirt track on a hill leading up from Road 60, a major route that dissects the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Over time, similar modest dwellings have turned into sprawling Israeli housing developments, part of a plan that members of Israel’s cabinet acknowledge they have implemented to prevent the birth of a Palestinian state. The process can be violent.

DEIR DIBWAN, WEST BANK: The Jewish settler outpost of Or Meir is small. A handful of prefabricated white shelters, it sits at the end of a short dirt track on a hill leading up…

Jewish settler outposts in the occupied West Bank set out as modest dwelling, over time turn into sprawling Israeli housing developments, often through...