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...eviction itself went relatively smoothly, but the hard feelings it generated resound deep inside Israeli army barracks. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were initially assigned only to secondary tasks, such as manning roadblocks to stop religious Zionist sympathizers from joining their Hebron brethren. Still, when orders were given to the Duchifat Battalion to assist evicting the two settler families, 38 out of 400 soldiers initially refused to obey after many called their rabbis on cell phones. Eventually, all but eight relented. These "refuseniks," as they were dubbed in the Israeli press, were slapped in the army prison...
...Hebron incident has resounded like an explosion deep inside Israeli army barracks. Many Israeli soldiers and officers in the elite combat units were raised in illegal settlements within the occupied Palestinian territories, and their sympathies lie with their religious Zionist brethren in Hebron...
...probably know what happened next: conservation and a global recession--and the gusher of new oil produced by all that capital spending by Exxon and its brethren--sent prices plummeting...
...bases. Then, in a stealthy overnight raid, the DPP-led local government of Kaohsiung, Taiwan's second city, dismantled a huge Chiang presiding over the city's cultural center and secreted him away to a warehouse (Taiwan people are waiting to see if the reassembled statue appears among its brethren up north...
...without union contracts. Then, in 2005, General Motors and Ford persuaded the United Auto Workers (UAW) to break open an existing contract to cut health benefits for both current and retired workers. Chrysler couldn't get a similar break because at the time it appeared healthier than its Detroit brethren; plus it belonged to a big German company whose other businesses (Mercedes-Benz and Freightliner) were, and are, doing just fine...