FWIW, I've never supported the construction of settlements in the Gaza Strip or deep in the West Bank in places that make an eventual two-state solution more difficult to achieve.

Unfortunately, despite the fact that many (at one time most) Israelis agree with me, successive governments, especially the current batch of right-wing nuts, have "pressed the gas pedal" on these.

In 2000, at Camp David, then Israeli prime minisiter Ehud Barak offered Yasser Arafat peace based on two states living peacefully side by side (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Camp_David_Summit).

The plan was for Israel to remove any settlements from the Gaza Strip (this was later done unilaterally by Ariel Sharon in 2005) and from the depths of the West Bank. About 80% of settlers then lived in towns within a few miles of the pre-1967 border. Those would have been attached to Israel, and a similar area of land from pre-1967 Israel, where there weren't any Israeli towns would have become part of Palestine.

Needless to say, Arafat rejected this deal and kicked off the so-called Second Intifada (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Intifada) that over 5 years killed over 1000 Israeli civilians through suicide bombings, shooting attacks, etc. against unarmed civilians. As a personal aside, one of my aunts was murdered by a Palestinian suicide-murderer bomber while riding on a bus in Tel Aviv.