The settlement tic

And they are still frantically building blocs of houses, blocs of housing projects, blocs of settlements and "thousands of housing units" beyond the pre-Six-Day War border: not out of urban needs, not out of demographic urgencies, not for the sake of quality of life, not out of any rational economic and urban planning - but building for the sake of building, as a barrier and barricade against the very possibility of having to evacuate the territory on which the buildings will stand... At some stage this blind Zionist inertia that knows no bounds (in every sense of the word - limits, borders, restraint) and measures everything in terms of quantities and area will have to stop and focus on the quality and the flavor of our lives as Israelis. And then it will become clear that size does not always make the difference; we have already learned that when there is no peace and no security, even the most massive housing projects and houses can produce fear and misery. And as Sharon fights like a lion for more territory, and more time, and another ridge, and another "settlement bloc" with X "thousands of housing units" - he is liable to discover, too late as usual, that this war too is anachronistic and a waste of time, like most of his wars.