In this case Jim. there is another very good reason for the settlers being resented.

They occupy just 2% of the West bank, but require 60% of it to protect themselves being polluted by the presence of the indiginous population they have forcibly excluded.

They need room for their rapidly increasing population to thrive, and they acquire it by enclosing 2 million human beings in just 40% of the West Bank,

To put it another way, based upon that mindset, before the Israeli settlers begin to feel crowded, it'll be standing room only in the Palestinian area.

If there is, according to the Israeli government, room for 2 million Palestians in their area, then there is room for 3 million people in the area occupied by 367,000 Israelis. They'll be needing some fantastic breeding programme to justify the need for that space.

The above is intended to inform those egregious idiots who actually believe the reason for expansion is population growth.

A look at the map will show the area of land occupied by 6 million Israelis, against the area into which 3.7 million Palestians have been compacted.

Don T.