Speaking at “The Future of Judea and Samaria” conference at the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem, Rawan Osman, who has described herself as an Arab Zionist, said that despite breaking away from her antisemitic upbringing, there was one question she “avoided like the plague.” And that was what she thought about “West Bank” settlements.

“I used to say: ‘I am not a journalist, not a politician, not Israeli—don’t ask me,’ ” Osman said.

“Until I was invited for a tour in Judea and Samaria. I sat down near a water spring and a pomegranate tree, looking at the Jordan Valley, and I thought for a long time, and concluded—if Jews have the right to live in Tel Aviv, they definitely have the right to live in Judea and Samaria,” she said.