Word: hebron
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...strain. Graceful manners are not yet a national accomplishment. Israelis' driving is not civilized, although it is not as bad as that in either Boston or Brussels. These days it seems difficult to find Israelis laughing. The soldiers do not smile when they are on duty, on patrol in Hebron or Nablus or Bethlehem. Why should they? Smile at them in greeting, and they stare back with hostile incredulity, as if looking at a lunatic. A rueful joke is told by Yaakov Agmon, the Israeli theatrical director who is in charge of the 40th-anniversary celebrations that will be held...
Some radical settlers are hurting their own cause. Israeli television showed footage last week of a young settler, and her child, taunting a Palestinian girl in Hebron and cursing her as a "whore." Similar ugly scenes of Jewish settlers hacking down ancient Palestinian olive groves or beating up Arab schoolkids are just part of the reason why many Israelis have turned against them. Another is money: guarding and maintaining the settlements costs plenty. A study by the newspaper Ha'aretz reckons that since 1967, the bills run upwards of $10 billion, excluding military costs in the West Bank. According...
...location where Abraham first heard the call to “go forth from your country,” as the Book of Genesis recounts—and would end 1,100 kilometers to the southeast, at Abraham’s tomb in the West Bank city of Hebron. Highlights include important religious sites such as the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Passing through Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories, pilgrims and tourists could travel the route on foot...
...election may well turn out to be Likud?s Netanyahu. A gruff ex-Prime Minister nicknamed Bibi, Netanyahu managed to anger most of his right-wing voters after taking office in 1996 by cutting subsidies for the big families of ultra-Orthodox Jews and by giving away part of Hebron to the Palestinians. This time around, Netanyahu tried to stop Kadima?s surge in the polls by scare-mongering about Palestinian terrorism and hurling personal insults against Olmert, but these tactics backfired. At best, Likud can hope to become a junior partner as part of a Kadima-led coalition, though...
massacre of Jews by Palestinian Arab terrorists in Gaza and Hebron"; he did not say that the historical elements of his framework related to the problems faced by Palestinian refugees in Gaza and Hebron...