This paper will focus on how Jewish Israeli settlers have appropriated the discourse of liberal humanism and coexistence, not merely as a form of public relations, but as practices of settler-self-making. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork in and around the West Bank settlements, it will examine how settlers understand their own history there in relation to the Palestinians that they have displaced. For settlers, the last half century has involved self- and community-making through territorial expansion, building homes and memories on the spoils of war. Settler historical narratives thus have little more in common with the archives of the state than do their Palestinian counterparts; nor are they any less important to the staging of their own political horizons. I will show that in my primary field site, the northern West Bank settlement of Alfei Menashe, settlers look with nostalgia to the 1980s prior to the first intifada. According to this rose-tinted memory, at this time, the hills of the West Bank were open to their exploration, and people felt so comfortable in their surroundings that they would often go to the nearby Palestinian city of Qalqilia for groceries or for Saturday-morning shopping when the Jewish Israeli stores were shut. While settlers follow the state’s lead in turning a blind eye to Palestinian land claims, this is by no means the “empty land” of earlier Zionist propaganda. Rather, in a post-Oslo political moment—or even, as some argue, a post-two-state-solution moment—settlers take account of themselves and their project within the discursive contours of coexistence. I argue that settler nostalgia towards the 1980s is a way of claiming for themselves a moral high ground, positioning them as the right wing of a “peace movement” and the front line of coexistence.