Teenage couples have become common in various West Bank settlements as young people grow more religiously extreme, and try to return to their ancestral values and lifestyles: simple and agricultural, and marrying young.
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<span>According to figures for 2007 from the Central Bureau of Statistics, 245 women and 18 men married at the age of 17, while 933 women and 312 men did so at 18. </span>
ReplyDeleteStill pretty low numbers.
<span><span>Still pretty low numbers.</span>
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Not very recomforting still.. Give them enough time and you will see.</span>
<span><span><span>Still pretty low numbers.</span>
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Not very comforting .. Give them enough time and you will see.</span></span>
<span>They are trying to produce demographic facts on the ground. If you look carefully at the obsessive preoccupation with this in official Israeli documents you can see the reasons for the trend. </span>
ReplyDeleteAlong with this you will see the increasing call for self-sustenance in the settlements, living off the land. In the meantime we see the increasing restriction put on the real Palestinian owners of the land who are cleansed, whose crops are destroyed, and whose movement is increasingly restricted. All of this combined is just the same campaign that refuses to die, that is based on murderous colonial occupation.