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settler

noun as in pioneer

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The incidents were the latest in a recent surge in settler violence coinciding with the olive harvest season, when Palestinians head to their agricultural land around towns and villages.

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He was the only son of Jean and James, who were descendants of English, Scottish and Irish settlers.

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Watson was born in Chicago in April 1928 to Jean and James, descendants of English, Scottish and Irish settlers.

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Since God did not intend “a whole Continent as fruitful and convenient for the use of man to lie waste without any improvement,” the settlers were entitled to take it over and make it better.

Yet so far the village has been spared the settler assaults that have marred this year's olive harvest, leaving many Palestinians injured.

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