And, of course, the scramble for land in the West Bank is not the only way in which settlers have been increasingly impinging on our lives.
For their part, settlers complain about violence by Palestinians, and it's true that there were several incidents in this area between 1998 and 2002 in which settlers were killed.
The settlements have resulted in the creation of legal zones in which settlers are subject to Israeli laws but Palestinians come under a patchwork of military orders and laws dating back to Ottoman and British rule, the report says.
And, very important for all, despite a recent rise in crime, Brasilia remains safer than Rio or Sao Paulo.Above all, Brasilia has succeeded in what it was meant to do: shifting the country's centre of gravity towards its vast interior, after 450 years in which settlers had clung to the seaboard.
The revolutionary generation of the 1770s, drawing on decades of experiences in which settlers built towns and local governments, constituted themselves as the new political body.
What actually happened was a march in which settlers stared in wonderment and a certain anxiety at a large and unified force of Jews and Arabs taking a powerful stand against occupation.
But if it exists, then Australia is a country founded on an almost total genocide, in which settlers killed every last living person in Tasmania, and which under the "White Australia Policy" forbade all migration from non-European countries until 1973.
"Last week we saw images from the wedding [in which settlers stabbed a picture of a Palestinian baby killed in the attack].
The report draws attention to a "discriminatory two-tier system" in the West Bank, under which settler businesses have the advantage of free movement unhindered by checkpoints and the security barrier, and greater access to land and water resources.
In the town of Cherokee, street signs are in two languages: English, which settlers brought centuries ago from Europe, and Cherokee — representing the language that natives spoke even earlier.
