The settlements started in 1967, just a few weeks after the Six Day War, before the ‘three nos’ policy of the Khartoum Conference.
Executive summary
The claim that Israeli settlements began in 1967, within weeks or months of the Six-Day War, is supported by multiple contemporary and retrospective accounts: settlement activity in the newly occupied territories started almost immediately after June 1967, with examples in the Golan in July and re‑establishment of pre‑1948 communities in the West Bank later that year [1] [2] [3]. The reporting supplied does not, however, provide source material about the Khartoum Conference’s “three nos” timing or a direct contemporaneous link between that Arab summit and the earliest settlement steps, so any conclusion tying the two events chronologically relies on outside evidence not included here (no source provided).
1. The immediate post‑war moment: settlements go from idea to reality
Multiple timelines and institutional histories indicate that the first waves of Jewish communities in territories captured in June 1967 were established within months of the Six‑Day War; the United Nations summary explicitly records a July 1967 founding in the Golan and notes rebuilding in the Hebron area in September 1967 [1], while journalistic timelines and encyclopedias reiterate that settlements were constructed “after 1967” and that the movement began “months after the June 1967 war” [4] [3] [5]. Specialist overviews add that Israel’s military government and planners quickly began drafting settlement maps and authorizing outposts and kibbutzim in strategic locations following the armistice lines of June 1967 [5] [6].
2. Continuity with pre‑1948 communities and the shape of early policy
Early settlement activity was not solely novel colonization; in some places it represented the re‑establishment of Jewish communities depopulated in 1948 — Kfar Etzion and the Etzion Bloc are cited as pre‑1948 settlements reconstituted after 1967 — and the Allon Plan and security rationales guided the first decade’s pattern, with settlements concentrated on the Jordan Valley, Jerusalem approaches, and strategic heights [2] [4] [7]. Histories emphasize that the initial numbers were modest — the first decade saw some thirty‑odd settlements in the West Bank — and that governments of different stripes backed settlement for a mix of security, ideological, and demographic reasons [2] [7].
3. International and legal pushback from the early years
From the outset the settlement enterprise attracted international censure: UN bodies and later international legal assessments have maintained that settlements in territories occupied since 1967 lack validity under international law, a position reflected in UN resolutions cited in these sources and in later ICJ and Security Council findings [1] [8] [9]. Encyclopedic and timeline material repeatedly frames settlements as a post‑1967 development and highlights the legal and diplomatic controversies that traced the policy’s expansion [4] [10].
4. Interpretation and the missing link to Khartoum’s “three nos”
The supplied reporting consistently supports the core of the user’s statement — that settlement activity began in 1967 and quickly after the Six‑Day War [1] [3] [4]. The specific claim that this occurred “before the ‘three nos’ policy of the Khartoum Conference” cannot be fully corroborated from the provided sources because none of them discuss the Khartoum Summit, its dating, or the public formulation of the “three nos.” That omission matters: while chronologies outside this packet date the Khartoum Arab Summit to August 1967 (after June hostilities), the present source set does not supply that fact, so this account must remain cautious and confined to what these sources document (no Khartoum source provided).
5. Competing narratives and implicit agendas
Sources supplied present two clear framings: scholarly and UN material stress that settlements are a distinct post‑1967 phenomenon with legal consequences and international opposition [1] [8] [9], while pro‑settlement and Israeli government narratives emphasize security, historical continuity, and re‑founding of pre‑1948 communities as motivating factors [4] [7] [6]. Those framing differences reveal implicit agendas — international law and Palestinian advocates foreground illegality and obstruction to statehood [1] [8], while Israeli planners and settler proponents foreground defense and historic claims [4] [7] — and both are reflected in the timelines and encyclopedic entries provided [5] [3].
Conclusion: based on the assembled reporting, settlements did indeed begin in the immediate aftermath of the June 1967 war and were established within weeks to months thereafter in places such as the Golan and parts of the West Bank [1] [3] [4], but the materials here do not supply contemporaneous documentation about the Khartoum Conference or its “three nos,” so linking the precise timing of that Arab summit to early settlement actions cannot be verified from these sources alone (no Khartoum source provided).