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...Sharon surveys the burning Palestinian territories and Israel's simmering border with Lebanon, every conflict looks existential. Sharon had a hand in each of Israel's wars, from the wound he received in the Battle of Latrun in 1948 through his controversial role as Defense Minister during the Lebanon War of 1982. In this decisive chapter of his life, the 73-year-old former general has to prepare for a kind of war and a kind of peace at the same time. The army, the right wing and his own Likud Party all want to hit the Palestinians harder...
...which states that an "occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies." To West Bankers, the settlements are not only permanent, but they are also designed to surround and isolate the major Arab centers of population. Example: in the Latrun finger, a spit of land that juts out between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, the Arab villages of Beit Nuba, Emmous and Yalu, with all their 1,800 houses, were bulldozed to the ground. East of the present Jerusalem-Nablus road, meanwhile, the Israelis are linking their major settlements overlooking...
...border between countries would be changed in two minor ways. The Latrun salient, a bit of Jordanian land that juts into Israel at the Trappist monastery of Latrun on the road to Jerusalem, would be given to Israel. So would a small chunk of land farther south in the Kfar Etzion area...
...Swedish ambulance driven by a lone U.S. marine, the flag-draped bodies of Count Bernadotte and Colonel Serot were taken from Jerusalem to Haifa. Israelis lined the streets in silence. "We are too ashamed to talk about it," said a Jerusalem cabdriver. In synagogues, rabbis denounced the murder. At Latrun, a detachment of Abdullah's Arab Legion presented arms as the ambulance passed. Beneath the dead man's folded hands rested his broad-brimmed Scout...
Dusty Plain. Israel's fighting men were desperately trying to reopen the lifeline road. Last week they attacked near Latrun, where commanding hills suddenly rise from the rocky plain. Near by is the Ajalon Valley, where Joshua commanded the sun to stand still until the Israelites "had avenged themselves upon their enemies." Last week the moon was not so obliging. Haganah fighters, who are used to night battles, had attacked in its light. But heavy Arab fire stopped them. The morning sun found Jews still in the dusty plain, firing from the cover of rocks...
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