Droughts or other external shocks, such as epizootic events and internal changes linked to the life cycle of the families, also drove the settlements to use new means of livelihood security during the 1990s and 2000s.
The "music video" also pays homage to a terror attack carried out last Friday where an Israeli couple was gunned down in front of their children as they drove between settlements in the West Bank.
The government now spends its money on expansion instead, with billions of shekels that might have gone into supporting kibbutzim being spent on the settlements, supporting education, building infrastructure and providing tax subsidies to drive Jewish settlement into the occupied territories.
She does not mention that for a quarter of a century, Mormons had repeatedly been driven from their settlements by mobs that burned their homes and killed their children.
The playgrounds of this remote Russian archipelago were recently invaded by a prowl of hungry polar bears, driven into human settlements in search of food and shelter after rising temperatures destroyed the last hospitable slices of the Arctic sea ice.
In this case, the summer programming roster does not contain many highly popular shows that might drive a settlement.
The crisis also is affecting the national economy, something that could drive a settlement well past record-breaking territory.
Driving the settlement, however, was the fact that both sides had much to lose by airing their dirty laundry in public.
First, while Hamas, the militant Islamists who control Gaza, and Israel's ultra-rightists, who drive the settlement enterprise, are rising in popularity, the reason is not their ideologies, but young people's despair over the occupation's grinding violence.
Although historians long assumed that the Norse settled Iceland and Greenland in search of new farmland, some researchers have recently suggested that the hunt for ivory instead drove the settlement of both islands.
