He voted for it, he told Arutz Sheva, a rightwing news service, but after 10 months "the government will go back to implementation of the policy of previous governments, in whose times there was a marked increase in settlement".
"These incidents have occurred against the background of the systematic increase in settlement activity, tensions over the Haram al-Sharif and rising levels of tensions and acts of violence on both sides".
On the diplomatic front the game is both simple and familiar: to maintain a critical ambiguity in the face of the real facts on the ground, represented by the increase in settlement building by the Israeli government, in the midst of the last round of peace talks.
Contrary to the increase in settlement and cultivation, grazing areas declined by 47 % and the livestock routes linking seasonal grazing resources shrank by 61%%, thereby reducing herd mobility.
However, the reduction in stiffness induced by modifying the configuration under the ballast (by, for example, adding elastic mats) causes an increase in settlement, the latter exerting the strongest influence (even more so than the change in ballast thickness) on track performance.
Liu (2007: 55) records, for the Danshui River near Taipei, an increase in settlement numbers from 3 in the early Dabenkeng (earliest Neolithic) phase to more than 20 in the middle Dabenkeng, then to more than 50 in the following Middle Neolithic Shuntanpu phase at c.2,000 BC.
Ariel was referring to a potential increase in settlement activity as well an increased military assault on Hamas.
