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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Upfront I deplore what Hamas is doing and the horrific violence.

My question is why people choose to live so close to a border with a hostile “nation”. Is there something about that area that is compelling, or some industry that is located there? Not just here but a village along the DMZ in South Korea, or really any other place so close to an enemy.

I think I would feel very unsettled and unsafe all the time but maybe I am just very risk averse. Does anyone have friends or family who have made that choice? [/quote]

Because in a war over territorial dispute, leaving the disputed territory unoccupied is a gift to your enemy because they can claim that it is a free territory for them to take, they can claim you abandoned it. The one who occupies it and lives there for generations can claim it's theirs. 
This is why the Israeli government has encouraged and incentivized the occupation by its population of every single piece land in that region. Once they have settled there and lived for generations, it will be harder to ask them to leave.

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Exactly! And my understanding is (I am neither Jewish nor in any way middle eastern) that this tactic was used even since before 1947. 
Come over, settle in, de facto be the local. [/quote]
But, then the govt is putting their people in danger by having them live near a border where there are  people who want to hurt you on the other side of the border. Seems like a recipe for disaster. And, here we are.[/quote]

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