To the casual visitor or tourist driving through the occupied West
Bank or Jerusalem, Israeli settlements may appear as just another set of
houses on a hill.
The middle-class suburban style townhouses, built fast
and locked in a grid of uniform units, stand like fortified compounds,
in direct contrast to the sprawling limestone Palestinian homes below.
Settlement homes, mostly constructed of cement with a
cosmetic limestone cladding, tend to fashion a similar look:
American-style villas topped by red-tiled roofs and surrounded by lush,
neatly trimmed green lawns.
The largest settlement, Modi’in Illit, houses more than
64,000 Israeli Jews in the occupied West Bank. The mega-settlement has
its own mayor, as well as schools, shopping malls and medical centres.
Some settlements even have their own universities.
......... So why have these housing compounds caused so much rancour and been called a threat to the prospect of peace in the Holy Land?
Follow this journey to find out........
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