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...camera crew as they criss-cross the region. In Ramallah, thousands of angry demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags surge down the main street protesting the Israeli occupation. When a patrol of Israeli soldiers arrives, it is greeted by a barricade of flaming tires and a barrage of stones In Hebron. Jews from a nearby settlement roam the streets, machine guns in hand, smashing the glass from Arab cars and shop fronts In Nablus, Israeli bulldozers demolish 20 Arab houses in retaliation for a bomb blast at a Jewish shop. In Elon Moreh, illegally situated Jewish settlers set up barbed wire...
...attribute the new Islamic movement not only to the antileftist backlash but to a more profound disillusionment with aspects of Western culture, such as movies, drinking and the changing relationship between the sexes, that have been imported into the West Bank since 1967. Says Ribhi Abu-Sinanah, dean of Hebron Polytechnic: "The Arab countries have been open to Western culture. This openness has resulted in nothing positive. We have been defeated." In general agreement, an Israeli political scientist remarks: "To some extent this phenomenon is the result of a widespread despair. The Palestinians don't want us, they...
After the Six-Day War in June 1967, Dothan noticed that Arab antiquity shops in the Old City of Jerusalem-just conquered by Israeli troops-were stocked with ancient Egyptian artifacts. When Dothan asked where they came from, the dealers specified Hebron, in the mountains south of Jerusalem. That was clearly a tall tale; some of the artifacts-jewelry, clay masks, even coffins-still bore grains of yellow Mediterranean sand...
Those decisions led directly to more violence; six Jews were killed and 16 were wounded, presumably by Arab terrorists, outside the Hadassah clinic in Hebron. Among the victims was a follower of Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the fanatical Kach movement and former head of the Jewish Defense League. Vowed Kahane: "Two teeth for a tooth!" Israeli authorities later arrested and imprisoned him under an administrative detention order. In the meantime, Jerusalem police discovered an arms cache on the roof of a Jewish religious school in the Old City. The investigation of the bombings focused on both Kach...
...Your former Defense Minister deported two Palestinian mayors and a Muslim religious leader after the Hebron slaying of Jewish worshipers. Now that you are serving as Defense Minister as well as Prime Minister, do you condone such actions...