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To: Climber who wrote (20880)	3/8/2002 2:11:01 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

They are the largest settlements, right by the Green Line, and in the Gush Etzion settlment bloc. They contain about 160,000 people. Most of the inhabitants are secular, I believe, and went there for cheaper housing. That's not quite the same as saying that they were built "just for the purpose of cheaper housing for Israelis". There were all kinds of reasons, some ideological, some a kind of historical payback -- The Etzion bloc had belonged to Jews pre-1948, but during the War of 1948 the inhabitants were killed or driven off, and Jordan took the land.

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