Baffled housing

Monday December 26, 2005 - 11:31AM EDT

I am always puzzled when I read about Israel building new houses for settlers. Mainly because of the term settlers. Since when does any place on this planet have settlers anymore. All land is known by pretty much everyone so the idea of settling to me is something that ended 100 years ago. I imagine they use settling as a claim to land. Not neccessarily a claim but a reaffirmation of land that is in dispute. Which somehow is a terrible idea. Let's just house people on land that is disputed and prone to conflict. I don't get it.