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...Israeli settler trying to take down a Palestinian flag in an Arab elementary school set off a violent clash today between Palestinians and Israelis in Hebron. "This is a scary and mean situation right now," reports Sam Allis from Jerusalem. "The Israeli government's hands are virtually tied. They can't get the settlers out of Hebron voluntarily, and it would be political suicide to force them out. Hebron is holding up the peace talks." Today's violence came on the second anniversary of the Israeli-PLO accord, signed in Oslo in 1993. Hebron is the main obstacle between Israel...
ForIsraeli and PLOofficials, keeping the emerging West Bank accord on track after a terrorist bombing in Tel Aviv last week may have been the easy part. Now, they must convince Jewish settlers -- many of whom have occupied a local hilltop in protest -- to leave the territory. Today, in the biggest clash so far between authorities and West Bank settlers, hundreds of Israeli police and soldiers climbed the Dagan Hill and dragged them down by the dozens, only to watch them run back up. After several hours, hot and weary police and soldiers carried the settlers down again. (At least...
...Afrikaner culture and symbols. "Lots of little things were done," MacLeod says. "They stopped using the old national anthem so there would be no national anthem, and at the Olympic games in 1992, they used a 'peace' flag, not the South African flag. And the old paper currency had settler heroes' pictures. Now they have elephants."parpar
...settlers continued their tirade for 15 minutes or so, until two Israeli army jeeps arrived carrying eight soldiers. At that point, Hamad went outside. He asked one of the soldiers, "Protect us from this man." The soldier replied, "Get away. Go home." Hamad noticed that one of the settlers was moving toward his house, with a soldier flanking him on either side. Using his knee, the settler smashed in one of the glass panes on Hamad's front door while the two soldiers stood...
Hamad ran up to them, shouting, "This man is destroying my property! Arrest him!" The settler answered angrily, "If you don't like it, leave this country!" He then punched Hamad in the chest. Neither of the soldiers made a move to restrain the settler. Hamad's wife Raeda approached, and the settler struck her in the chest. Again the soldiers did not react. By then, about 25 neighbors had gathered and were beginning to seethe. The soldiers pointed guns at the crowd to subdue them...