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...outward simultaneously, are sightless with rage. They are red and shattered, as if a bomb had gone off inside them and fractured the window glass, behind which is a red fire. He does not want to talk, but does, finally, when he has settled down. He says a Jewish settler came in a car and used an Uzi and killed his friend. The new grave is down at a crossroads by the mosque. An Israeli helicopter passes overhead. The friend of the dead man promises, ''We will never forget.'' Has Israel lost its way? Israelis may find the question offensive...
Some radical settlers are hurting their own cause. Israeli television showed footage last week of a young settler, and her child, taunting a Palestinian girl in Hebron and cursing her as a "whore." Similar ugly scenes of Jewish settlers hacking down ancient Palestinian olive groves or beating up Arab schoolkids are just part of the reason why many Israelis have turned against them. Another is money: guarding and maintaining the settlements costs plenty. A study by the newspaper Ha'aretz reckons that since 1967, the bills run upwards of $10 billion, excluding military costs in the West Bank. According...
...party. In part, as Israeli commentator Danny Rubinstein notes, that reflects a widely held belief among Palestinians that "Yasser Arafat and the PLO recognized the State of Israel in the Oslo agreement and what did they gain from that? Only suffering and misfortune." In fact, as Rubinstein notes, the settler population in the West Bank actually doubled during the Oslo years...
...TIME: There's a lot of opposition to the plan from the settler community and their supporters. Are you worried that your plan will split Israel...
...next Tuesday's elections, in which the front-running, self-described centrist Kadima party, headed by acting prime minister Ehud Olmert, is expected to garner less than 40 seats. Kadima will need partners, and increasingly, it looks like one of those may well be Avigdor Lieberman, a gravel-voiced settler, originally from Moldovia, whose views of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are described by critics as "racist" and "fascist...