[af_vet_1981]

These places have names. Samaria, Shomron, etc. If they’re settlements, then so is Tel Aviv. They’re all part of the land of Israel.

Funny you should mention that. Tel Aviv was originally a settlement. Tel Aviv is the first all-Jewish city in modern times. Originally named Ahuzat Bayit, it was founded by 60 families in 1909 as a Jewish neighborhood near Jaffa. In 1910, the name was changed to Tel Aviv, meaning "hill of spring." The name was taken from Ezekiel 3:15, "...and I came to the exiles at Tel Aviv," and from a reference in Herzl's novel Altneuland, in which he foresaw the future Jewish state as a socialist utopia.

The Yishuv (Hebrew: ישוב‎, literally "settlement") or Ha-Yishuv (the Yishuv, Hebrew: הישוב‎) or Ha-Yishuv Ha-Ivri (the Hebrew Yishuv, Hebrew: הישוב העברי‎) is the term referring to the body of Jewish residents in the land of Israel (corresponding to Ottoman Syria until 1917, OETA South 1917–1920 and later Mandatory Palestine 1920–1948) prior to the establishment of the State of Israel. The term came into use in the 1880s, when there were about 25,000 Jews living across Land of Israel, then comprising the southern part of Ottoman Syria, and continued to be used until 1948, by which time there were about 700,000 Jews there. The term is used in Hebrew even nowadays to denote the Pre-State Jewish residents in the Land of Israel.[1]

Whole Lotta Settlin' Going On ...

List of North American settlements by year of foundation

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

Your clear, fact-filled summary of the Yishuv, with the addition of the systematic list of America’s settlements and their year of settlement is the best ever summary statement of the issues! A keeper, to be quoted with full attribution, af-vet_1981!