Quote Originally Posted by Mojavpa
With all the attention given to the settlers who are being forced to leave the Gaza Strip, the pro-Zionist media has become silent on the issue of the West Bank, obviously because Israel is going to tighten its hold on that illegally occuplied territory to appease the conservatives who were reluctant to give away the Gaza Strip. And get this, the settlers who left the Gaza Strip were more than compensated, each family is receiving 200,000 to 500,000 dollars for new homes. On top of that, more settlers are pouring into the West Bank.


http://www.counterpunch.org/bisharat08272005.html

dont worry. israel will find a way to eradicate those settlers and claim their land.

think of the 200,000 as an investment...kinda like america sustaining the saddam regime until they were ready to get their oil.