text: The Palestinian people have lived there for so many centuries - Palestinian Jews, Palestinian Christians, and Palestinian Muslims. I wonder if the Globe and Mail could research and provide a story about the carrying capacity of the land, and how much ground water is being removed by the people who build and move into these settlements. What is the rate of removal compared to the traditional and, presumably, sustainable rate before the Zionist movements began. If they are not careful, it won't be that many decades before we are hearing stories about their "God-given right" to water from Egypt, Jordan, etc.
  
  Scripture, alone, makes for a poor sense of place.