I went over to a settler and said: "Why are you going around?
We had a big argument over a piece by a settler.
For example, we published a piece — well, I just gave away the punchline — but we had a big argument over a piece by a settler.
Nabi Saleh, another village near Ramallah, has become the newest focus of clashes, after Jewish settlers took over a natural spring on village land.
After a settler was stabbed in Nablus in 1983, other settlers demonstrated by taking over Joseph's tomb for three days in a bid to force the government's hand into using an iron fist.
And the Israelis continue to take over more Palestinian properties in "Arab neighborhoods" turning them over to settler groups to create new hostile military-protected colonies in the heart of Arab areas.
The settlement project has put four hundred thousand Israelis in the West Bank; under any version of a peace plan remotely acceptable to both sides, well over a hundred thousand settlers would have to be uprooted.
Four hundred and eight years after settlers took over an island they called Jamestown, 35 miles from Chesapeake Bay up a brackish river they named for the same English king, the former colony's name is familiar to anyone who sat through a social studies or history class in an American school.
By nightfall, five Palestinians were dead, including two children run over by a Jewish settler, and hundreds were wounded from army bullets, both real and rubber.
The voice of his irascible son, Eli, known as the Colonel, is first heard during the Great Depression, when the W.P.A. recorded his memories of a sparsely populated Texas fought over by settlers, Mexicans and "the aboriginals".
