Let's get serious here. The only good reason to have settlers is to inch out the Palestinians day by day.
I do not disagree with this outcome.
The type of "settlers" I have encountered, in general, are the most obnoxious, passive aggressive, and hateful people on planet Earth. They're as bad as Mormons. The idea that these people are going to be forging peace with violent savages? Please.
You don’t know many settlers, then. I live in Gush Etzion. I’m a settler. My extended family are settlers. Hateful? Some smoke pot and listen to Shlomo Karlbach. Perhaps some, like me, post on Freep. Some carry rifles. Many, like me, are quite poor. But we’re here, and we’re staying. If peace doesn’t result, that’s ok, too. We’re willing to try, but not willing to do anything suicidally stupid, either.
As for the violent savages thing. That’s a generalization, too, to my experience. There are many Arabs who make a good living working for Jews, better than they would earn working for Arabs, and find Jews more pleasant and easygoing. Doesn’t mean I wear rose colored glasses. That’s an actual observation, of which I remain skeptical to this day. There are many more that I wouldn’t trust as far as I can throw.
What a hopeless reality you paint...
Obnoxious, passive-aggressives vs savages.
As someone already mentioned, Spinoza already reminded us That if there is no solution, there in no problem.
So why are we wasting time even talking about it?
The west Bank is Israeli sovereign territory and they can manage it any way the wish.
The savage koranimals? Let them die of thirst in the dark.
LOL!! There was a time on FR when that comment would have gotten you flamed big time. There was a huge contingent of them (or at least very vocal) who did it to me.