unsettling

If there is one thing in Israel that really makes me cringe, it is the attitude of some people and the government toward settlements in the West Bank. Natural growth is one thing, but this is quite another. In terms of the settlements that morally should not be there anyway, I understand if you have 20 children and need to expand your house or build another one next door; however, I think that what you are doing to the world by having 20 children is an atrocity, and that raising your children in a politically unstable piece of land is not fair to them and is a clear indicator that you do not love your children as much as you love dogmatic beliefs. If one looks at the article that I posted, one can easily see that this "natural growth" phenomenon is a huge concern to settlers because they all just got there.

You'd think that by reading government declarations about this "natural growth" that some well established people living in old homes are in their third generation in these towns, but no, often times it's just people who moved there in the last 10 or 15 years since after a peace accords announced that they will fool the Palestinians into allowing them to solidify and expand the settlement enterprise. People argue that the settlers' whole lives are there, that children are born there and see it as their home. Well guess what, the children who were born there, my hearts go out to you. Nobody chooses where they are born or to whom, but your parents are reproducing at rapid rates in order to immorally create a political environment that will pit them against the Palestinians and their own nation, Israel.

--Avraham