On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 06:14:05 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

In article ,
Charles Gray wrote:

Or one side decides to play "Kick out the injun" with a new
settlement, or expansion of one or two, or the settlers go off on a
spree of beating up Palestinians.
Curiously, the U.S. media seldom reports those incidents...

Really? I see it covered all over the place whenever that sort of thing
happens.

Oddly enough, there was damned little coverage of this recent round of
dismantling settlements and dragging the settlers back.

I actually wasn't aware that there had been a new round-- were they
large settlments or the unapproved settlements that had popped up a
few years back.
Next to the suicide bombings, the Settlemetns are some of the
biggest problems around-- I wonder if Likud expected this when they
started the big push in the 1980's, or if it was more a "reward people
who will support us things".
One question I haven't been able to find any answers, is that
presuming the Isreali government dismantles ALL settlements next week,
can they afford to compensate the settlers? You can talk all day
about them being illegal, but the people would still have to have
housing and such provided them, at government expense, and I don't
know if the Isreali economy could currently handle that expense.