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Article: Scenes from A DIVIDED LAND: Anger and uncertainty among West Bank
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- The Jewish Week
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- May 19, 1995
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Steve Lipman
The Jewish Week
05-19-1995
Scenes from A DIVIDED LAND: Anger and uncertainty among West Bank. settlers.
Jerusalem -- This is a tale of two roads.
Route 60 winds through the center of Israel, from Beersheva on the edge of the Negev north to Jerusalem and on to Nazareth, up and down the mountains of Judea and Samaria, past gnarled olive trees and rocky fields and Bedouin camps and Jewish settlements. To the tradition minded, it is known as "Derech Avos," the road of the fathers, a paved reminder of the ancient path where biblical patriarchs and matriarchs walked.
Route 60 binds Israel's past to the present.
Route 57 follows a straight line, east to west, from Tulkarm, an Arab city ...