(Globe and Mail - Canada) Timothy Appleby - According to Geoffrey Aronson, director of the Washington-based Foundation for Middle East Peace, "The settlements and their political supporters have over the past decade proved themselves to be dynamic and strong." Eve Harow, a resident of Efrat, a fast-growing Jewish town south of Jerusalem, explained: "This is not about stealing a Palestine that was once here, because the people here were nomads." "If we weren't here, it wasn't because we didn't want to be; it was because we'd been killed and ethnically cleansed. So we don't consider ourselves settlers but rather resettlers."
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