1.0link5929<![CDATA[Settlers or Squatters]]>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-von-hoffman/settlers-or-squatters_b_5929.htmlThey call them settlers. Those persons being dragged out of their Gaza homes and on to our TV screens. Settlers is a name with a heroic cast. It evokes the word pioneer. Noble ground breaking. Community building. That kind of stuff.
But what if the same people were called squatters? Not so noble. Squatters hints of persons being where they ought not to be, of occupying a place which doesn't belong to them. If the settlers were called squatters, their tearful...