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Article: Hebron: a West Bank magnet for trouble. (World).
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- October 18, 2002
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Second in a two-part series:
Part I (NCR, Oct. 11) looked at the growing alliance between fundamentalist Jews in Israel and fundamentalist Christians in this country. This installment looks at how Jewish settlers known for extremism are affecting life in the West Bank city of Hebron.
It's a beautiful drive from Jerusalem to the West Bank city of Hebron. Low stone walls wind through rocky hillsides. The scenery is pastoral; the biblical heartland looks almost uncannily just as you might imagine it would. On this particular day in March there are no shepherds about, but the service taxi I'm in, a minivan with 11 people squeezed into it, passes a man riding ...