Reply #12: We are In Agreement In This Matter, Mem'Sahib [View All]

[The Magistrate]

The settlements must go: certainly the greatest part of them anyway. It is encouraging to know that most of those resident in them understand this is in fact a requirement for a peaceful solution in the region. Once again, the people are considerably in advance of their political leadership.

It is important to remember the greatest proportion of the settlers are not fanatics, but simply people attempting to better their standards of living: what subsidy has drawn to move east, subsidy can surely draw to move west.

It is true that a poor construction can be placed on the liquidation of the settlements. A person so disposed might well dub it ethnic cleansing, or worse. Those labels do not matter to me: it seems a practical fact that they must go, in the greater interest.