Word: settlers
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...Noga brought their family back. "It wasn't easy," says Cohen, watching Yisrael, 8, roll by awkwardly on skates. The boy has a prosthetic leg to replace the one he lost just below the knee. "But if you believe this is your land, you know you belong here." Ideological settlers like Cohen believe they're living on land God gave to the Jews, as recorded in scripture. The Cohens' return to Kfar Darom is a sign of the growing defiance among Israel's 7,000 Gaza Strip settlers and their 200,000 counterparts in the West Bank. Though settlers...
...supporters vehemently opposed to a Palestinian state in the West Bank tend to acknowledge that it might be an inevitability in Gaza. Unlike the West Bank, Gaza is separated from Israel by a border fence that has, for the most part, kept terrorists from reaching Israeli cities. Its settler population of under 5,000 is concentrated into two large, defensible blocs, and Israel has refrained from repeating its wholesale invasion of the West Bank in Gaza. And Arafat, bottled up in Ramallah, won't be able to dance a victory jig in the wake of the retreating Israeli tanks...
MAALEH EPHRAIM The Unsettled Settler NITZA TZAMERET, 48/three children...
...deaths as disputes over land and water rights turned violent. In central Nasarawa state, clashes over fishing access to a local lake left up to 100 dead and eight villages in ruins. On the Cameroon border, at least 50 people died following a dispute between indigenous farmers and settler tribesmen over grazing land. And in another incident of political feuding, a senior aide to Nigeria's top judge was found dead, two weeks after the unsolved murder of Justice Minister Bola...
...occupation." Whenever Hamas' unyielding violence has challenged Arafat too hard, he has cracked down. He arrested hundreds of militants and removed firebrand Hamas preachers from their mosques in 1996, after a torrent of suicide bombings nearly undid the Oslo accords. When Hamas militants car-bombed a bus filled with settler schoolchildren in 1998, setting off another crisis with Israel, Arafat put Yassin under house arrest. Both times, though, Hamas' popular support was at a low ebb among Palestinians who believed peace negotiations would prove fruitful...