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Article: Some Jewish settlers seeking revenge amid olive groves.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- October 22, 2002
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Byline: Christine Spolar
MAZRA'A E SHARQIYA, West Bank _ Lutfi Azzam's family couldn't pluck the olives fast enough. As they filled their hands with the hard, round, green harvest, more than a dozen Azzam relatives scanned the hillsides for trouble.
Trouble, in the form of Israeli soldiers and settlers, is as plentiful as this year's bumper crop, they said.
"We're afraid. We're afraid the settlers are going to come," said Azzam, a 55-year-old farmer and a father of eight, who has been harvesting these groves all his life.
Olive picking has never seemed so dangerous as it does at the dawn of the third year of the newest intifada, or ...