Any realist coming upon those ideological settlements sees them for what they are: outposts in an alien land.
Yet after waves of attacks by Palestinian militants, the character of some less "ideological" settlements has begun to shift in the opposite direction.
And most would give up the small, distant settlements in the Jordan Valley if there was something to show in return.It is the ideological settlements just beyond the barrier that will cause the most conflict.
His links with Bet El, along with recent revelations that the family charity of Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, gave money to one of the West Bank's most hard-line ideological settlements, suggests the settler movement will have an unprecedented number of advocates in the heart of Washington.
They would presumably be the hardest to remove, and some might forcibly resist.Closer to the 1967 border are the non-ideological settlements, among them sizeable towns such as Maale Adumim (25,000), Ariel (17,000) and Givat Zeev (11,000).
Rabbi Froman was a founder of Gush Emunim, the ideological, messianic settlement movement that sprang up after Israel's conquest of the West Bank.
Rabbi Froman, 63, is a founding member of Gush Emunim, the ideological, messianic settlement movement that sprang up after Israel's conquest of the West Bank, with its biblical landmarks, in the 1967 war.
First of all, thanks to all the ideological Jewish settlements that Israel has set up in the West Bank and Gaza (recklessly cheered on by the American Jewish right), Israel now has a huge strategic-political problem.
He visited Israel many times as a tourist before emigrating and taking citizenship in 2000, going to live in Shvut Rachel, an ideological rightwing Jewish settlement on the occupied West Bank south of the Palestinian city of Nablus.
