Some 30, 000 Palestinians live in this part of the city, together with the settlers.
At the same time, Mr Sharon retains a basic sympathy with the settlers' goals.
His critics say they are half-hearted, too, because ideologically the prime minister sympathises with the settlers.
The mayor says there were never any friendships between the Palestinians and the settlers.
But the settlers uprooted his crops and the police refused to help him, he said.
Arafat has called the deal between the settlers and the Israeli government a trick.
Besides the hotels, he says, the government rented 800 apartments around the country for the settlers.
Israeli officials blame the settlers, saying they have refused to cooperate with the government.
Israel's system of proportional voting has given the settlers and zealots a chokehold over politics.
Despite Lord Melville's refusal to help the settlers, they made it safely across the Atlantic.
The settlers and the Hasidic Lubavitch sect were his most ardent campaigners in the 1996 election.
The use of such Holocaust symbols has not endeared the settlers to more mainstream Israelis.
Without wood to build boats, the settlers relied on horses as their sole form of transport and as food.
For good measure, Mr Sharon has publicly urged the settlers to seize the hilltops.
If hordes try to enter, says a settler security officer, the settlers are licensed to shoot.
But whereas Adam and Eve knew why they must leave, the settlers cannot understand their original sin.
One of the settlers, who did not want to give his name, admitted that he was scared.
As architect of the settlements, Mr Sharon spoke with sorrow of the settlers now bound for evacuation.
In May of 1610, the settlers finally arrived who had been shipwrecked in Bermuda, effectively saving the colony.
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In any case, both Altman and the settlers say they want to move as communities, not as individuals.
The settlers at Jamestown did not come here dreaming of a steady diet of walnuts and olive oil.
The settlers and their political backers are already preparing celebrations to mark a great splurge of new building.
Both the Settlers and the Natives need to acknowledge their past failures, seek forgiveness and reconciliation from each other.
The Natives, on the other hand, also failed to see and treat the Settlers as fellow Africans and Liberians.
One of Shilo's founders, Shevach Stern, said the settlers always hoped to have good relations with their Arab neighbors.
Samoset, the first Indian they met at Plymouth, greeted the settlers in English.
The American language became the richest in the world, because the settlers encountered so many different kinds of people.
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Unlike the settlers on the West Bank, whose neo-messianic nationalism arouses deep controversy, the Golan people enjoy widespread sympathy.
The settlers' use of orange-star badges reminiscent of the Nazis' yellow stars appalled many Jews.
The settlers formed an aristocracy, but it was one which educated indigenous people could join, by talent or by marriage.
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