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Just a quick note regarding settlements.Since the UN (I know the UN is ineffective) imposed resolutions against Isreali in 1996 to stop building settlements,the settlement population has risen from approx.40,000 to near 400,000 to date. Why? Because the Isreali Government is using these people as pawns.Before the current 'road map' was introduced,the Isreali's were banking on the international community to say the illegal settlers couldn't be exiled,meaning you can't have a mass exodus of people to create statehood for someone else.(anyone see the irony here.Think 1948).In some newspapers that was given the same symbolic equivalent to the mass exodus of Jews in Nazi Germany. Now,since the settlements are at the fore front of the new'road map',the Isreali's will be forced to concede them even though they will concede to giving away land that isn't theirs to begin with. The continuing support by the Isreali Government to build more settlements is their way of trying to guarantee the Palestinian's will never see statehood. This isn't a popular opinion,at least not in a politically correct sense,but none the less something you may never see reported for fear of those who choose to,being labeled anti-semitic
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