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Recent events, though, have rattled the Jews of Hebron. It is not that they are so fearful of Palestinian reprisals for the massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs two weeks ago. "Terror we live with always," says settler spokesman Noam Arnon. Rather, they worry about what their own government will do to them to calm the outrage provoked by the killings. Says Shani Horowitz, a native of the Bronx who moved to Hebron 12 years ago: "The left is using this opportunity to lynch...
Outrages on both sides have been common. "This is the wildest place in the West Bank," says a soldier on duty in Hebron. "Trouble waits around every corner." In a Palestinian community that tends to be deeply traditional and highly religious, Hebron's settlers move among their four compounds heavily armed. Especially visible among the 450 Jewish residents are 150 students of the Shavei Hebron Yeshiva: in pairs or threes they patrol the roads connecting the settler enclaves, assault rifles slung over their shoulders. As they saunter through the streets, Arab merchants grow anxious. The yeshiva boys frequently overturn their...
...masse, an option advocated by six of the 16 members of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's Cabinet. "It's hard to imagine that the nation would allow it," says Horowitz, "but who knows? Anything might happen now." A Rabin aide tends to agree. "The Prime Minister knows that Hebron is a time bomb. He'll have to defuse it somehow, no question about...
...Hebron settlers feel they are being unfairly condemned for the sin of Baruch Goldstein, who came from neighboring Kiryat Arba. "What, we've all turned into bloodthirsty murderers?" says Horowitz. "We don't eat people." But they do incense them no end. Says the Rabin aide: "At least in other settlements, Jews can move around without rubbing it in the face of the Arabs. Not the Hebronites." When they chose their home, the Hebron Jews meant to trumpet their presence in the West Bank. Now the government must contemplate ejecting them to send as vocal a message...
...attackers, one fatally. Riots swept through occupied West Bank towns; soldiers fired tear gas and bullets that killed eight Arabs and wounded dozens. The hard-line Islamic movement Hamas called on Arabs to take revenge on Israelis for the massacre of at least 30 Palestinians in Hebron two weeks ago. The Israeli government poured in troops to enforce a 24-hour curfew and sealed off the occupied territories with roadblocks, effectively confining most Palestinians to their homes. "The purpose of the curfews," said Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, "is to prevent a total uprising...