21. Some settlers are willing to stay behind, he added. 22. The city may be safe but the Jewish settlers must always be ready for violence when they leave the city, he said. 23. The first documented settlers were Joseph Crockett, his sons, and their wives and children. 24. The Israeli settlers are less ideological and militant than in the West Bank. 25. The first settlers were Irish Catholics, fleeing religious persecution on nearby St. Kitts and prisoners banished to the island by the British ruler Oliver Cromwell. 26. The settlers are right, though, to be fearful. 27. There are, at this point, more Israeli soldiers in Gaza than there are Israeli settlers. 28. There are other settlers than those who demonstrated Tuesday. 29. These settlers were no Pilgrims looking for religious freedom. 30. This is a highly unlikely outcome, since the settlers are not likely to choose to stay and the Syrian government would probably not want them. |