The settlers were determined to continue on what they see as a divine mission to take back the lands occupied by Israel in biblical times. “We are not worried about American pressure,” said Aryeh Davis, a 26-year-old from the settlement of Kiryat Arba in Hebron. “It says in the Bible that this land is ours; it will stay ours and we will keep building more and more. God is stronger than Obama.”
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