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Article: New arrivals fight West Bank plan; Ideologues hoping to block the Aug. 17 evacuation are setting up camps in small towns.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 12, 2005
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Byline: Joshua Mitnick Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
SA-NUR, WEST BANK -- Canvas tents on a basketball blacktop look out to an idyllic valley lined with olive groves, giving this Jewish settlement slated for evacuation an air of summer camp.
But it is actually a makeshift neighborhood for newcomer families of religious ideologues who hope to block the Israeli withdrawal from this artists' village, one of four emaciated secular settlements in the northern West Bank that the government wants to abandon next month.
"When there is a basis of faith, the path is clearer," says Irit Frenkel, who moved to Sa-Nur last month with her ...