From the world ecological crisis, mankind begin to know the importance of ecology and the urgency to build the ecological human settlements.

随着全球生态危机的加剧，人类越来越体会到生态学的重要意义，认识到需要建设生态化人类住区的迫切性。

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Treaties and agreements are ignored, and the continuing push to build new settlements in territory belonging to others shows their mindset.

他们无视条约和协议，并且不停地推动对那些属于别人的领土建立新的协议，从中可以看出他们的倾向。

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Barak says Mr.Netanyahu has made concessions: Israel says it will not build new settlements, but will only allow "natural growth,"

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Israel says it will not build new settlements, but it reserves the right to build in existing communities to accommodate "natural growth."

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Religious Zionism, which had been marginal to Israeli politics, gained strength, not least among the first Israelis who came to build settlements in the West Bank.

NEWYORKER: The Party Faithful

In the Middle East people started to build settlements as early as 15, 000 years ago, a period called the Early Natufian, but a drying of the climate made them nomadic again between 12, 800 and 11, 500 years ago.

ECONOMIST: The earliest granaries

On Wednesday, Pakistan's prime minister, Shaukat Aziz, said that instead of rebuilding cities lost in the quake, the government would build new settlements, constructed to higher standards, nearby.

ECONOMIST: Tragedy on one of the world’s main fault lines | The