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Surrounded by over 180,000 Palestinians, the hundreds of Israeli settlers in the ancient city of Hebron are always braced for a siege. On Tuesday, however, their adversaries were not angry Palestinians but the very same Israeli police and security forces that usually protect the settlers...
...confrontation came after two families of religious Zionists defied an Israeli court order evicting them from apartments illegally seized in a Hebron marketplace. The settlers ringed the building with barbed wire and burning tires, welded shut the doors and windows of the apartments, and invited in swarms of teenage zealots armed with rocks, eggs and light bulbs, which they began hurling down when police advanced on the building at 6 a.m. The squatters were evicted, but during the ensuing clash, 11 policemen were wounded along with four activists...
...first tests of the new union will be in the Holy Land, where the ROCOR maintains religious properties - and has had run-ins with representatives of the Moscow patriarchate in the past. In 1997, for example, Yasser Arafat forcibly turned over the only Christian church in Hebron, run by the ROCOR, to the ROC. (That church includes the site where the Bible says Abraham met three angels.) The American-based Church still controls St. Mary Magdalene, with its seven gilded onion domes and Muscovite facade, one of the most prominent churches in Jerusalem because of its commanding spot...
...Meanwhile, farmer Hebron says he won't be spooked by Michigan authorities. Back in business a week after his goods were seized, he's become a cause celebre of the raw movement. After an Ann Arbor retailer he worked with was served a cease-and-desist order, a co-op member offered her nearby home as a new pickup site. Meanwhile, some of Hebron's clients in Michigan and Illinois have been flooding the fax machines of state agriculture officials to protest the treatment of the mild-mannered dairyman. In Feburary, the Amish farmer who supplies Hebron...
...Recently, Hebron parked his truck in front of a North Side Chicago health-food store and began carrying crates filled with brown eggs and pasture-raised beef and pork into the shop for co-op members. He had to distribute the milk, however, out of the back of his truck - a rule the store's owner, Paula Campanio, reluctantly imposed after the raid. "I'm trying to be discreet," she says. "When I see a police car go by, I'm convinced they're coming for me." Demand from her customers for the milk is strong enough that...