The unabated continuation of settlement activity some 100,000 more settlers arrived in the West Bank between 1993 and 2000 (without taking Jerusalem into account)—created great discontent among the Palestinians and strengthened the Ḥamās opposition to the Oslo Accords.
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.
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.
While a two-state solution might have worked for awhile had it been implemented from the start, the Israeli's continuation of the West Bank and their "settlements" have pushed the situation to the point that either the two antagonists learn to live together or else end up destroying each other.
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.
The Netanyahu government, which took office nearly three months ago, introduced the ambiguous phrase "normal life" to denote a continuation of at least limited building within existing settlements.
It was the day council leaders across the country were forced to sign next year's local government financial settlement: a £350m cut and a continuation of the council tax freeze.
But continuation of the status quo, which includes expanding and open-ended settlements, punctuated by increasingly horrific wars, has had and continues to have an extremely exacerbating effect on the region and the world.
