I'm a settler, and I live in the Judean desert.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I grew up in a small town in Sudan. There weren't many cars, so we did things in the countryside near where we lived.
I grew up in Palm Springs, California, which is a suburb like a desert town, and I love it.
At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.
I was born and raised in southern Utah.
I came from the outer suburbs of Melbourne, so you do learn how to survive in that environment.
I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent with my grandfather on the farm and the guys I played basketball with in high school. But then that was it.
I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me.
I was born in the Land of Israel, the son of pioneers - people who tilled the land and sought no fights - who did not come to Israel to dispossess its residents.
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.