# Why do the Israelis build settlements?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-israelis-build-settlements/590273>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 25, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-israelis-build-settlements/590273 "2011-07-25T15:35:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-the-israelis-build-settlements/590273/141 "2011-07-27T23:22:11Z")

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> [@Kimstu](#):
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> I too would like to have it clarified whether **Airman** or any other poster here is really, earnestly, making the case that there’s any course of action that Syria and/or the Palestinians could adopt that **would** actually result in Israel’s formally relinquishing the occupied territories in their entirety. …

Of course he wasn’t really making that case. There is not an iota of integrity in **Airman** ’s post. He dutifully gave the stock right-wing phrasing and moved on. As they do. It is about demonstrating support, not soundly made argument.

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