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	<title>Comments on: WATCH: Olive trees destroyed by settlers in South Hebron Hills</title>
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		<title>By: jehad momani- Jordan</title>
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		<dc:creator>jehad momani- Jordan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>the main question is how to stop all this and how to put an end to this Struggle ,any ideas  ?</description>
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		<title>By: Vadim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vadim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 08:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Richard

I must admin I didn&#039;t understand your response. Could you clarify it? What did I exactly apologize for? In what meaning do you use the word Zionist as an adjective?

Where are you from?</description>
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<p>I must admin I didn&#8217;t understand your response. Could you clarify it? What did I exactly apologize for? In what meaning do you use the word Zionist as an adjective?</p>
<p>Where are you from?</p>
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		<title>By: RichardL</title>
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		<dc:creator>RichardL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 07:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s a pretty clear apology for Zionist racist apartheid Vadim.</description>
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		<title>By: Piotr Berman</title>
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		<dc:creator>Piotr Berman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 02:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Vadim: impartial media does not give a damn about what happens and what does not happen in West Bank etc.  Luckily, the miracle of technology allows politically engaged observers to document their claims, and one can compare the quality of their claims, however politically motivated the observations are.

So we can compare the suffering of the settlers as documented by sites like Arutz Sheva with the suffering of Palestinians as documented by B&#039;Tselem etc.  In the meantime, impartial observers provide us with restaurant reviews.  Although I must admit that my rosy views of restaurant reviews are in part based on the fact that I could never afford to visit the reviewed restaurants and that I never read scathing critiques of those reviews, so for all I know, they are paragons of objectivity.   Also, in the few cases I had time and money to check for myself, the food was good.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vadim: impartial media does not give a damn about what happens and what does not happen in West Bank etc.  Luckily, the miracle of technology allows politically engaged observers to document their claims, and one can compare the quality of their claims, however politically motivated the observations are.</p>
<p>So we can compare the suffering of the settlers as documented by sites like Arutz Sheva with the suffering of Palestinians as documented by B&#8217;Tselem etc.  In the meantime, impartial observers provide us with restaurant reviews.  Although I must admit that my rosy views of restaurant reviews are in part based on the fact that I could never afford to visit the reviewed restaurants and that I never read scathing critiques of those reviews, so for all I know, they are paragons of objectivity.   Also, in the few cases I had time and money to check for myself, the food was good.</p>
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		<title>By: vadim</title>
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		<dc:creator>vadim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Richard

I don&#039;t understand your question. When I speak of a group of people that indulge in violence - I call them terrorists. When I speak of a group of people that indulge in building houses and raising families in disputed areas in Israel - I call them  settlers. 


The UN has proven its bias, corruption and overall uselessness in countless cases. To me, the opinion of the UN has as much moral weight as the opinion of Hamas.

The international law is something everyone quotes and few truly understand. I&#039;m no lawyer, but there is no set of &quot;International laws&quot; upon which you can decide what&#039;s legal and what&#039;s not. It&#039;s much more complex than that and your statements about this or that being against international law are oversimplifications. 


You don&#039;t have to buy my reluctance to automatically accuse Jews without any evidence. If that suits your view and makes you feel better - then go ahead, just don&#039;t lecture others about moral standards. 


The Arabs are people like all of us. They are not animals to be provoked into violence and they should take responsibility for their actions. You can provoke me into cursing you, punching you, maybe even doing something worse as a personal vengeance. You could not provoke me into planning an attack and massacring an entire family, exploding in a bus full of unfamiliar people or murdering an infant with a sniper rifle. These acts are not provoked, they are performed to achieve political means. Nothing, and I repeat - NOTHING - justifies them. This sort of violence, it&#039;s justification and glorification is a social sickness of our Arab neighbours and should be a source of shame.

So - if someone building a house on an empty land (often paid for) or a graffiti on a building - makes you want to sharpen your axe and chop some random Jew&#039;s head off &quot;in retaliation&quot; - you should seriously consider professional treatment.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Richard</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t understand your question. When I speak of a group of people that indulge in violence &#8211; I call them terrorists. When I speak of a group of people that indulge in building houses and raising families in disputed areas in Israel &#8211; I call them  settlers. </p>
<p>The UN has proven its bias, corruption and overall uselessness in countless cases. To me, the opinion of the UN has as much moral weight as the opinion of Hamas.</p>
<p>The international law is something everyone quotes and few truly understand. I&#8217;m no lawyer, but there is no set of &#8220;International laws&#8221; upon which you can decide what&#8217;s legal and what&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s much more complex than that and your statements about this or that being against international law are oversimplifications. </p>
<p>You don&#8217;t have to buy my reluctance to automatically accuse Jews without any evidence. If that suits your view and makes you feel better &#8211; then go ahead, just don&#8217;t lecture others about moral standards. </p>
<p>The Arabs are people like all of us. They are not animals to be provoked into violence and they should take responsibility for their actions. You can provoke me into cursing you, punching you, maybe even doing something worse as a personal vengeance. You could not provoke me into planning an attack and massacring an entire family, exploding in a bus full of unfamiliar people or murdering an infant with a sniper rifle. These acts are not provoked, they are performed to achieve political means. Nothing, and I repeat &#8211; NOTHING &#8211; justifies them. This sort of violence, it&#8217;s justification and glorification is a social sickness of our Arab neighbours and should be a source of shame.</p>
<p>So &#8211; if someone building a house on an empty land (often paid for) or a graffiti on a building &#8211; makes you want to sharpen your axe and chop some random Jew&#8217;s head off &#8220;in retaliation&#8221; &#8211; you should seriously consider professional treatment.</p>
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		<title>By: vadim</title>
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		<dc:creator>vadim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Piotr
There is another option you don&#039;t mention - the media is not an objective source of information. They all have their agendas and most are not processional enough to put it aside and do their work properly. The Israeli media is a great example of what I&#039;m saying - there are scores of examples of events being ignored (such as Arabs uprooting trees or damaging crops), events that are downplayed (Arabs attacking Jews described as  &quot;clashes&quot;, terror attacks described as &quot;incidents&quot;) and events which are exaggerated (graffiti on a mosque described as Jewish Terrorism, edited videos made by Betselem or the one we&#039;re shown here - described as a documentary with real evidence of Jewish Terrorism).


So when you look the web for events - you only get the point of view of the editors of the largest sites. Other sites (with other agendas - and therefore with different information) are labelled as Pro-Settler, as if that makes them less reliable.

&quot;It is true that Palestinian sources are sometimes given to exaggeration&quot;. Jews stealing organs? Using wild boars? Plan to destroy the Dome of rock? Spreading AIDS and drugs? The &quot;massacre&quot; in Jenin? Countless staged events (Pallywood)? You can claim that Israeli sources (as much as any other) are not always accurate. But there&#039;s still a difference between that and a routinely use of blatant lies and fabrications.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Piotr<br />
There is another option you don&#8217;t mention &#8211; the media is not an objective source of information. They all have their agendas and most are not processional enough to put it aside and do their work properly. The Israeli media is a great example of what I&#8217;m saying &#8211; there are scores of examples of events being ignored (such as Arabs uprooting trees or damaging crops), events that are downplayed (Arabs attacking Jews described as  &#8220;clashes&#8221;, terror attacks described as &#8220;incidents&#8221;) and events which are exaggerated (graffiti on a mosque described as Jewish Terrorism, edited videos made by Betselem or the one we&#8217;re shown here &#8211; described as a documentary with real evidence of Jewish Terrorism).</p>
<p>So when you look the web for events &#8211; you only get the point of view of the editors of the largest sites. Other sites (with other agendas &#8211; and therefore with different information) are labelled as Pro-Settler, as if that makes them less reliable.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is true that Palestinian sources are sometimes given to exaggeration&#8221;. Jews stealing organs? Using wild boars? Plan to destroy the Dome of rock? Spreading AIDS and drugs? The &#8220;massacre&#8221; in Jenin? Countless staged events (Pallywood)? You can claim that Israeli sources (as much as any other) are not always accurate. But there&#8217;s still a difference between that and a routinely use of blatant lies and fabrications.</p>
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		<title>By: Piotr Berman</title>
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		<dc:creator>Piotr Berman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 04:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The results of web searches indicate that either:

violence and agricultural sabotage by settlers is many orders of magnitude larger than similar acts against the settlers, or

unlike Palestinian villagers, settlers are uniquely inept in using web media to show their plights.

The second alternative is highly unlikely.  For example, Arutz Sheva has large staff and quite high technical quality, while Palestinian web resources like MAAN look to be published by scant staff with quite poor knowledge of English.

It is true that Palestinian sources are sometimes given to exaggeration, although I do not see that they do it more frequently than followers of other Abrahamic religions.  One possible exaggeration is attributing the activity of wild boars to the settlers.  After all, they seem to be indigenous to the region.  According to http://natureisrael.com/mammals.html :

Wild boar are perhaps Israel&#039;s most obnoxious large mammal, a lumbering creature renowned for its grumpy temper.

Because no photo is provided, and no indication if the creatures are quadrupedal or bipedal, it could be an oblique reference to settlers who are renown for grumpy temper and also may reach &quot;the weight in exceess of 200 lb, especially males&quot; and &quot;damage crops&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The results of web searches indicate that either:</p>
<p>violence and agricultural sabotage by settlers is many orders of magnitude larger than similar acts against the settlers, or</p>
<p>unlike Palestinian villagers, settlers are uniquely inept in using web media to show their plights.</p>
<p>The second alternative is highly unlikely.  For example, Arutz Sheva has large staff and quite high technical quality, while Palestinian web resources like MAAN look to be published by scant staff with quite poor knowledge of English.</p>
<p>It is true that Palestinian sources are sometimes given to exaggeration, although I do not see that they do it more frequently than followers of other Abrahamic religions.  One possible exaggeration is attributing the activity of wild boars to the settlers.  After all, they seem to be indigenous to the region.  According to <a href="http://natureisrael.com/mammals.html" rel="nofollow">http://natureisrael.com/mammals.html</a> :</p>
<p>Wild boar are perhaps Israel&#8217;s most obnoxious large mammal, a lumbering creature renowned for its grumpy temper.</p>
<p>Because no photo is provided, and no indication if the creatures are quadrupedal or bipedal, it could be an oblique reference to settlers who are renown for grumpy temper and also may reach &#8220;the weight in exceess of 200 lb, especially males&#8221; and &#8220;damage crops&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: RichardL</title>
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		<dc:creator>RichardL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Vadim: Will you please explain why, in your terminology, Palestinians who indulge in violence are “terrorists”, but Jews who live contrary to international law, (and often contrary to Israeli law which is already heavily biased to their cause) on Palestinian land and are accused by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of conducting terror attacks on Palestinians in neighbouring villages are called “settlers”. (ref. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/un-warns-250-000-palestinians-vulnerable-to-settler-violence-1.261591) Why the double standards?
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I don’t buy into your reluctance to blame nearby Jewish terrorists for attacks on Palestinian olive trees. Here’s one quote “for every act of destruction [of an outpost] in the southern Hebron hills we will set ﬁre to Samaria [northern West Bank], and for a container destroyed near Har Bracha [settlement in Nablus area] we will exact a price in the southern Hebron hills” (originally from Ma’ariv and retrieved from http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/dplc/dv/dplc20091202ocha_/dplc20091202ocha_en.pdf) See also page 3 of the same report “[On 4 December 2008] incidents of stone-throwing at key road junctions, setting ﬁre and vandalizing Palestinian property, cutting down olive trees, and slashing vehicle tires by groups of settlers occurred in at least 12 other locations throughout the West Bank.” And “[On 1 June 2009] Israeli settlers set ﬁre to approximately 1,300 olive trees and 280 dunums of wheat and barley crops belonging to residents of a number of Palestinian villages along Road 60”. On page 4 “[July 2009]  Israeli settlers, some of them riding horses, set  ﬁre to over 1,000 olive trees of ﬁve Palestinian communities”. It is also worth considering the comments of IDF Major-General Gadi Shamni (on page 5) “There has been a rise in Jewish violence in Judea and Samaria [i.e. West Bank]. In the past, only a few dozen individuals took part in such activity, but today that number has grown into the hundreds […] These hundreds are engaged in conspiratorial actions against Palestinians and the security forces.” The map on page 7 indicates that At-Tuwari (where the attacks in this article occurred) is considered “a highly vulnerable community” and is within 2 kilometres of a “settlement source of risk” (Ma’on) and 5 kilometres from two other such sources (Suseya and Karmel). 
&#160;
OCHA’s fact sheet for November 2011 http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_settler_violence_FactSheet_October_2011_english.pdf begins with the statement “The number of settler attacks resulting in Palestinian casualties and property damage has increased by 32% in 2011 compared to 2010, and by over 144% compared to 2009.” The casualties incidentally included three deaths in 2011.
&#160;
So yes, I have no problem in taking very seriously the accusation that these attacks were likely done by Jews. There are dangerous Jews very close to this site with a record of serial terrorist violence and vandalism against this village. You have absolutely no case in arguing that it might be otherwise. (And I consider that this site is biased against criminal behaviour, not against any terrorist group in particular. But where do you stand on the application of international law and the prevention of breaches of it, particularly with regard to the incidents cited by OCHA for example?)
&#160;
You write “Of course the de facto State policy is to expand via settlers”. Too right it is. You know very well the settlements are expanding and that the state approves of them, supports them and allows virtual free reign to terrorist activities emanating from them while Levy says it is all legal. Your sarcasm hides nothing of Israeli state policy that follows on directly from policies secretly enunciated by Ben-Gurion at least as early as 1937 http://www.palestine-studies.org/files/B-G%20Letter%20translation.pdf if not by Herzl on page 711 in Vol II of his diaries. 
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It may or may not justify Palestinian violence, particularly on the scale of the Itamar attack but it sure as Hell goes out of its way to provoke it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vadim: Will you please explain why, in your terminology, Palestinians who indulge in violence are “terrorists”, but Jews who live contrary to international law, (and often contrary to Israeli law which is already heavily biased to their cause) on Palestinian land and are accused by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of conducting terror attacks on Palestinians in neighbouring villages are called “settlers”. (ref. <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/un-warns-250-000-palestinians-vulnerable-to-settler-violence-1.261591" rel="nofollow">http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/un-warns-250-000-palestinians-vulnerable-to-settler-violence-1.261591</a>) Why the double standards?<br />
&nbsp;<br />
I don’t buy into your reluctance to blame nearby Jewish terrorists for attacks on Palestinian olive trees. Here’s one quote “for every act of destruction [of an outpost] in the southern Hebron hills we will set ﬁre to Samaria [northern West Bank], and for a container destroyed near Har Bracha [settlement in Nablus area] we will exact a price in the southern Hebron hills” (originally from Ma’ariv and retrieved from <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/dplc/dv/dplc20091202ocha_/dplc20091202ocha_en.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/dplc/dv/dplc20091202ocha_/dplc20091202ocha_en.pdf</a>) See also page 3 of the same report “[On 4 December 2008] incidents of stone-throwing at key road junctions, setting ﬁre and vandalizing Palestinian property, cutting down olive trees, and slashing vehicle tires by groups of settlers occurred in at least 12 other locations throughout the West Bank.” And “[On 1 June 2009] Israeli settlers set ﬁre to approximately 1,300 olive trees and 280 dunums of wheat and barley crops belonging to residents of a number of Palestinian villages along Road 60”. On page 4 “[July 2009]  Israeli settlers, some of them riding horses, set  ﬁre to over 1,000 olive trees of ﬁve Palestinian communities”. It is also worth considering the comments of IDF Major-General Gadi Shamni (on page 5) “There has been a rise in Jewish violence in Judea and Samaria [i.e. West Bank]. In the past, only a few dozen individuals took part in such activity, but today that number has grown into the hundreds […] These hundreds are engaged in conspiratorial actions against Palestinians and the security forces.” The map on page 7 indicates that At-Tuwari (where the attacks in this article occurred) is considered “a highly vulnerable community” and is within 2 kilometres of a “settlement source of risk” (Ma’on) and 5 kilometres from two other such sources (Suseya and Karmel).<br />
&nbsp;<br />
OCHA’s fact sheet for November 2011 <a href="http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_settler_violence_FactSheet_October_2011_english.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_settler_violence_FactSheet_October_2011_english.pdf</a> begins with the statement “The number of settler attacks resulting in Palestinian casualties and property damage has increased by 32% in 2011 compared to 2010, and by over 144% compared to 2009.” The casualties incidentally included three deaths in 2011.<br />
&nbsp;<br />
So yes, I have no problem in taking very seriously the accusation that these attacks were likely done by Jews. There are dangerous Jews very close to this site with a record of serial terrorist violence and vandalism against this village. You have absolutely no case in arguing that it might be otherwise. (And I consider that this site is biased against criminal behaviour, not against any terrorist group in particular. But where do you stand on the application of international law and the prevention of breaches of it, particularly with regard to the incidents cited by OCHA for example?)<br />
&nbsp;<br />
You write “Of course the de facto State policy is to expand via settlers”. Too right it is. You know very well the settlements are expanding and that the state approves of them, supports them and allows virtual free reign to terrorist activities emanating from them while Levy says it is all legal. Your sarcasm hides nothing of Israeli state policy that follows on directly from policies secretly enunciated by Ben-Gurion at least as early as 1937 <a href="http://www.palestine-studies.org/files/B-G%20Letter%20translation.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.palestine-studies.org/files/B-G%20Letter%20translation.pdf</a> if not by Herzl on page 711 in Vol II of his diaries.<br />
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It may or may not justify Palestinian violence, particularly on the scale of the Itamar attack but it sure as Hell goes out of its way to provoke it.</p>
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		<title>By: Vadim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Vadim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 07:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Greg

Not a single Palestinian act of violence is justfied by any settlement. Not a single bombing. Without doubt, the failure of the PO \ Hamas to prevent all violence (not really unauthorized under its own terms) is effectively active policy towards violence. The ideology of the vanguard terrorists is attaches to the Palestinian leadership. This ideology is religiously based. Claiming the terrorists autonomous is irrelevant, as Hamas and PO could interdict them, but does not. With each bombing, each rocket, more confrontation will arise.

Of course the de facto State policy is to expand via settlers, that is why we left Sinai and Gaza. Just like Pink-Washing, this is Withdrawal-Washing - we hide our expansionist and land grabbing policy by giving land away.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Greg</p>
<p>Not a single Palestinian act of violence is justfied by any settlement. Not a single bombing. Without doubt, the failure of the PO \ Hamas to prevent all violence (not really unauthorized under its own terms) is effectively active policy towards violence. The ideology of the vanguard terrorists is attaches to the Palestinian leadership. This ideology is religiously based. Claiming the terrorists autonomous is irrelevant, as Hamas and PO could interdict them, but does not. With each bombing, each rocket, more confrontation will arise.</p>
<p>Of course the de facto State policy is to expand via settlers, that is why we left Sinai and Gaza. Just like Pink-Washing, this is Withdrawal-Washing &#8211; we hide our expansionist and land grabbing policy by giving land away.</p>
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		<title>By: Greg Pollock</title>
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		<dc:creator>Greg Pollock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Vadim,
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Not a single settlement is justfied by any Palestinian act of violence.  Not a single settler.  Without doubt, the failure of the State of Israel to prevent all settlements unauthorized under its own terms is effectively active policy towards settlements.  The ideology of the vanguard setters attaches to the State of Israel.  This ideology is religiously based.  Claiming the settlers autonomous is irrelevant, as the State could interdict them, but does not.  With each act, each settlement, more confrontation will arise.
.
I conclude it is de facto State policy to expand via settlers; that is, expansion is viewed as a State good.  Then the tool of expansion, the vanguard settler ideology, based on a very strong reading of Torah, attaches to the State.  Otherwise--stop the vanguard settlers, which is surely in the power of the State.
.
Enough word games.  The ideology of the vanguard settlers attaches to the State.  I don&#039;t like it; maybe you do, I know not.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vadim,<br />
.<br />
Not a single settlement is justfied by any Palestinian act of violence.  Not a single settler.  Without doubt, the failure of the State of Israel to prevent all settlements unauthorized under its own terms is effectively active policy towards settlements.  The ideology of the vanguard setters attaches to the State of Israel.  This ideology is religiously based.  Claiming the settlers autonomous is irrelevant, as the State could interdict them, but does not.  With each act, each settlement, more confrontation will arise.<br />
.<br />
I conclude it is de facto State policy to expand via settlers; that is, expansion is viewed as a State good.  Then the tool of expansion, the vanguard settler ideology, based on a very strong reading of Torah, attaches to the State.  Otherwise&#8211;stop the vanguard settlers, which is surely in the power of the State.<br />
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Enough word games.  The ideology of the vanguard settlers attaches to the State.  I don&#8217;t like it; maybe you do, I know not.</p>
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