Only the most patriotic Israelis moved into these settlements. Willing for themselves and their families to be shot at, harassed and murdered, that Israel might be safer.How, precisely, did the settlements make Israel safer, in a way that corresponding military bases would not?
Hershey's right....they were a gamble. Not only did some in the Israeli government know the settlements were illegal, but they knew that no government on Earth thought Israel had the right to move civilians into the occupied territories.
No one moved to Gaza or the West Bank not knowing this was likely to happen someday.
-Eric
"It took just 12 days from completion of Israel's withdrawal from Gaza before rockets started raining down on the Western Negev area from the now-unoccupied territory."
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