The leaked report describes the emergence of a "vicious cycle of violence … increasingly threatening the viability of the two-state solution", which it says has been stoked by the continuation of "systematic" settlement building by Israel in "sensitive areas" of Jerusalem.
"The continuation of occupation and settlement expansion, recent measures targeting the Jordan Valley to isolate it from the remainder of Palestinian lands in the West Bank, the checkpoints, arbitrary killings, the separation wall and arrests will only lead to hatred, despair and continued conflict," he said.
"All of them are calling for the continuation of the occupation and settlement building". Weeks remain before the final shape of Israel's 21st Knesset will be clear.
Many historians now say that the unseen sentiment that produced this result that shocked not just the British but the whole world was the idea that all the blood and treasure lost to maintain the freedom of the British empire and the Western world demanded something more than continuation of the old political settlement.
Especially the struggle over a freeze (sic!) of settlement construction and its continuation after September 26 come into focus.
By contrast, a settlement pattern which exhibits the use of many different types of gross habitat types and where settlements are located in many different parts of the landscape would be more characteristic of a continuation of an existing pattern of foraging settlement, even if there were slight changes in the settlement pattern.
Abkhazia, for its part, has not let Georgians go back to other areas.As ever, civilian populations are the pawns of politicians; their movement and settlement is the continuation of war by other means.
Much of Sherman's time as Commanding General was devoted to making the Western and Plains states safe for settlement through the continuation of the Indian Wars, which three significant campaigns during this time being the Modoc War, the Great Sioux War of 1876 and the Nez Perce War.
