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"Rebuilding Jewish Life in Judea, Israel"
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JUDEA ELECTRONIC MAGAZINE Vol.10, No.4 Av-Elul 5762/July-August 2002
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Website: http://www.womeningreen.org/judea OUR 10TH YEAR!
Contents:
* Settling the Land of Israel:
Settler Numbers Approaching 220,000 / The Second Generation in Judea
and Samaria / Zionism 2002: The Outposts / Why We Build Outposts
* Connections to the Land:
Tisha B'av in Jerusalem / Why Are We in Netzarim? / Hebron Surprise:
The Physical Reality of a Mythical City / A Settler from Gush Etzion in
Judea / Israel's Right to the Land of Israel
* Special People:
Culture of the West / The Last Zionist
* Our Arab Neighbors:
"Gee, I Didn't Know Arafat was So Tall" / Horse Thieves and Liars / Who
Killed Muhammad Al-Dura?
* Daily Alert on Israel and the Middle East
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Settling the Land of Israel:
SETTLER NUMBERS APPROACHING 220,000
Nadav Shragai
The Jewish population in the territories has continued to grow over
the last 12 months, increasing by 10,847 from June 2001 to reach a
total of 218,862. This constitutes a 5.2% growth, according to a
periodic report by the Interior Ministry.
The main cause of the increase is natural growth (the settlements
have an average annual growth rate of 3.1%). A net total of around
3,500 people moved to the territories between June 2001 and June 2002,
while the remaining 7,000 or so are the result of natural growth.
The year 2000 saw a 7.8% increase in the territories' Jewish
population, with an 8% growth rate in each of the preceding five years.
The most impressive growth was in Har Adar (11.5%), the Binyamin
settlements just north of Jerusalem (8.1%), and Alfei Menasheh (6.8%),
as well as two of the larger ultra-Orthodox settlements of Modi'in Elit
(17.4%) and Betar Elit (10%). Kochav Yaakov also had an impressive
increase.
(_Haaretz_, 25 July 2002)
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THE SECOND GENERATION IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA
A study of the living patterns of the "second generation" of
settlers by two researchers from the College of Judea and Samaria in
Ariel questioned 250 such youth and found that 79% preferred to live in
Judea and Samaria, though not necessarily in the same place as their
parents. (_Makor Rishon_, July 02)
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ZIONISM 2002: THE OUTPOSTS
Nadav Shragai
At East Yitzhar a new asphalt road is replacing the dirt track that
for years had linked this outpost with its mother settlement. Tsur
Shalem, the caravan neighborhood in west Karmei Tsur, was joined only
two weeks ago by a ninth family. Five caravans were brought in recent
weeks to Pnei Kedem in the eastern part of Gush Etzion, and at Amona
they are already preparing for permanent construction. At Harsha, a
permanent synagogue building has just been dedicated. At Sedot Meir, an
agricultural yeshiva at the outpost of Adi Ad, and at nearby Ahia and
Givat Herel, more and more vineyards and olive groves are being
planted, while the Israel Electric Corporation is now linking the six
outposts of Itamar to the Israeli grid.
Slowly, the faces of the outposts are changing and the temporary is
becoming permanent. If you subtract the skullcaps from the heads of the
inhabitants you have a picture of the early days of Zionism. Riding
their horses and herding their flocks, the dwellers in the outposts are
reminiscent of the early pioneers from the days of Hashomer. Their
clothing, the baggy trousers and the kaffiyeh wrapped nonchalantly
around their necks and their way with the land that they cultivate with
almost holy awe take the observer back, through a kind of time tunnel,
to the return to Zion at the beginning of the last century.
Some of them are still living in tin shacks, others in crumbling
caravans. Not all of them have running water. The electricity supply is
erratic, and they do not talk at all about the sewage system, but their
devotion to the land is total. The devotion of people with a mission.
Tower and stockade, of the Jewish year 5762. Zionism, 2002.
At first, there was nothing more than the flying of a flag, an
isolated caravan, a family or two. The aim will be achieved in full
when the territory between the existing settlement and the flag flown
on the hill opposite is occupied. Almost everything is backed, whether
with a wink of the eye or a tacit agreement. Sometimes there are also
formal papers.
The Settlement Department of the World Zionist Organization is a
key element in understanding the process whereby during the course of
five years, more than 70 outposts have been established. Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon knows almost everything and authorizes it. Ze'ev Hever
("Zambish"), the director-general of Amana, the organization for Jewish
settlement in the territories, is the coordinator - the person who
pulls the strings. He is called the father of the hilltops.
Historically speaking, the changes that Zambish and his boys have
brought in Judea and Samaria in recent years resemble the changes
brought about by Gush Emunim in the early 1970s. At that time, the map
of Jewish settlement in the territories was drawn up. Today's outposts,
in which no more than 1,000 people live all told, provide it with the
land reserves for the future.
The hilltops are the embodiment of Jewish clinging to the land. In
essence they are recapitulating the stories of the pioneers on which
generations were raised. When Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel
was renewed, Petah Tikva [pop. 160,000 today] was "a small Jewish
settlement among large Arab villages, east, north and south," wrote
Moshe Smilansky.
Morally, there is no difference between the settlements in the Land
of Israel where Arabs lived at the beginning of the last century and
the settlements in the Land of Israel where Arabs lived at the
beginning of this century. Either both of them are moral, or both of
them are inadmissible. Had the War of Independence ended differently
and the area of Samaria remained within Israel while the Arabs held on
to the Galilee, and in 1967 the Galilee had been liberated and not
Samaria, Peace Now would be relating to Samaria as an integral part of
the State of Israel and to the Galilee as occupied territory.
With respect to the Zionist deed, there is therefore no difference
between the mother of moshavot - Petah Tikva - and the mother of Jewish
settlements in the territories - Kiryat Arba-Hebron. The argument is
about the boundaries of the possible and not about the morality of the
deed.
Settlement in the Galilee and in the Negev was political, just as
settlement in the territories of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) is
political. Karmiel and the outlooks in the north were established to
Judaize the Galilee. Ariel and the outposts have been established in
order to Judaize Samaria.
(_Ha'aretz_, July 2002;
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=176993&contr
assID=2&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y)
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WHY WE BUILD OUTPOSTS
Bentzi Lieberman
Chairman, Council of Settlements of Jewish Communities
in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza
We build only on state land and don't touch Arab-owned land.
The basis for the outposts is: I breathe, I exist, I create and
develop, I cleave to the mountaintop. Our approach is totally Zionist.
Lieberman compares the establishment of outposts to a lost boy
returning to his mother (earth) after many years. "They'll try and stop
the boy from reaching his mother, but he would climb a mountain and
keep running toward her."
(From _Maariv_, 5 July 02, Shabbat, p. 21)
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Connections to the Land:
TISHA B'AV IN JERUSALEM
On the 9th day of the Hebrew Month of Av, 5762 - July 17, 2002,
tens of thousands of Jews streamed alongside the walls of the Old City
of Jerusalem in a silent procession that continued for many hours. The
walk took place without incident. Armed only with prayer books, and
waving Israeli flags, people silently marched alongside the walls.
Nadia Matar, of Women in Green, spoke:
"Today we are here on a mass march around the walls of the Old
City, underlining our eternal bond to the Temple Mount. The Temple
Mount symbolizes both Judaism and our Jewish sovereignty over the Land.
And just as the bride circles her groom under the huppah - the bridal
canopy - to express her love, so, too, we circle the walls and express
our love of and loyalty to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.
The majority of the people is loyal to the heritage and to the
Land. Most of the people want a Zionist-Jewish state at whose center
will stand, not the Western Wall, but the Temple Mount. Whoever
controls the Temple Mount controls all of Eretz Israel.
Our tikkun [corrective measure] must consist of our proclaiming to
the entire world that the Temple Mount is the heart of the people of
Israel - its physical and spiritual heart."
Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green)
http://www.womeningreen.org
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WHY ARE WE IN NETZARIM?
Haggai Huberman
[The Jewish town of Netzarim in the Gaza District is often No. 1 on
various commentators' lists of sites of Jewish settlement that have to
be destroyed for someone's idea of peace.]
Netzarim was established in 1972 by the government of Golda Meir,
who saw Jewish settlement in Gaza as an important value. Many Laborites
of that time spoke very warmly of Jewish settlement in Gaza. Netzarim
was designed to prevent the Arab cities of Dir el-Balah, to the south
of Netzarim, and Gaza City, to the north, from becoming one giant
metropolis. The plan has succeeded up to this very day, although the
original plan was to have a bloc of communities in Netzarim, and not
just one town.
In 1994, during the Oslo Accord negotiations over exactly what
areas would remain under Israeli control during the withdrawal from
most of the Gaza Strip, then-Southern Command Head Gen. Matan Vilnai
(today a Labor party minister) insisted that Israel's control of
Netzarim must not be limited only to the community itself, but should
extend two kilometers to the west - all the way to the sea - so that
the IDF would have a foothold on the coast from where to oversee
activity in the PA port in Gaza.
Thus, the presence of Netzarim is what allows the IDF to have a
presence in the Gaza Strip for its own security needs.
Netzarim spokeswoman Shlomit Ziv told Arutz-7: "We are making the
desert bloom, in the simplest sense. We have many dunams [acres] of
agriculture - and especially cherry tomatoes that we export abroad,
bringing in important foreign currency. Now that there are no Arab
workers, thousands of volunteers from around the country help out.
Every week different groups arrive to help us make the desert bloom.
We also have many educational institutions here. The town numbers
almost 60 families, with more on the way."
Arutz Sheva News Service, 22 July 2002,
http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com
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HEBRON SURPRISE: THE PHYSICAL REALITY OF A MYTHICAL CITY
Barbara Lerner
Visit Hebron while you still can, not just because it's the
birthplace of Western monotheism, but because it's the most surprising
city between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean. The surprise has
nothing to do with the monster political battles for which Hebron is
the symbol, or about the rights and wrongs of it all. It's about the
place itself, the physical reality of Hebron and its surroundings.
Before I went there last month, I thought standard press
descriptions like "400 Jews," "mostly from New York," or "surrounded by
200,000 Arabs" had some literal, descriptive meaning, politics aside.
So I went to the city of the patriarchs of Western civilization -
Abraham's city - expecting to find a single cluster of foreign Jews,
alone in a vast sea of Arabs, with no other Israeli civilians for miles
and miles. I thought I'd find only little bands of Israeli soldiers,
there to protect an isolated Judean outpost.
The #160 bus that takes you from Jerusalem's Central Bus Station
makes stops at a plethora of little towns, some Jewish, some Arab - all
the way to Kiryat Arba, a town of 7,000 Jews about a mile from Hebron.
Altogether there are about 10,000 Jews in the South Hebron Hills, and
fewer Arabs than the inflated numbers the press keeps citing.
The claim that Hebron is populated mainly by fanatics from Brooklyn
is another myth. About 12 percent of Hebron's Jews come from America;
75 percent are native Israelis, some descended from the Jews who lived
in Hebron for centuries before the 1929 massacre there. The other 13
percent are believers from all over the globe. There are 750 Jews in
Hebron, in four separate little neighborhoods, starting with an old,
handsome, comfortable one called Avraham Avinu (Abraham, Our Father)
and ending with the newest, least comfortable one, Tel Rumeida. There,
seven Jewish families have been living in cramped trailers for 17
years, waiting for final permission to build actual houses, like the
ones their Arab neighbors live in across the street.
When builders first dug into the earth at Tel Rumeida, two and a
half years ago, they began to uncover a part of Abraham's world.
Ancient Hebron, like ancient Jerusalem, was a walled city, and two of
its walls still stand at the base of this hill. The oldest was built
anywhere from 300 to 800 years before Abraham strode this ground; the
newer one, built 3,700 years ago, is from his time.
The reality behind the myths is stark and simple. It is a matter of
East and West. If the West will not fight to maintain its hold on its
two birthright cities - the Hebron of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and
the Jerusalem of Jesus - then it will in the end cede the entire Middle
East to an imperialist brand of Islam still seeking conquest, not
coexistence, with the Judeo-Christian world and the Western
civilization it gave rise to. If, on the other hand, Israel and
America join together to insist, clearly and forcefully, that Jews and
Christians will not be defeated and driven hence, then Islamist
imperialism will suffer a major defeat, and peace and coexistence may
yet have a chance.
(From _National Review Online_, 16 Jan 02)
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A SETTLER FROM GUSH ETZION IN JUDEA
Marc Zell
I am a resident of Alon Shevut in Gush Etzion, a town of 5,000 Jews
located about 20 minutes south of Jerusalem. Alon Shevut was
established in 1970 by a group of young yeshiva students and their
families who were associated with the Har Etzion Yeshiva run by Rabbis
Amital and Liechtenstein. Alon Shevut - like Kfar Etzion, Rosh Tzurim,
Migdal Oz, Neve Daniel, and Bat Ayin - is built on land that was bought
and paid for by the Jewish people long before the Jewish state was
formed in 1948. Its original inhabitants, many of whom were Holocaust
survivors, and some of whom were members of the left-wing pioneering
movement Hashomer Hatzair, were attacked by Palestinian irregulars and
the Transjordanian Arab Legion in the months that preceded the
establishment of the State of Israel.
Kfar Etzion was captured by Arab forces on May 14, 1948, the day
before the state was declared, and the major part of its 200 defenders
were gunned down in cold blood after surrendering to Arab forces. The
remaining inhabitants and defenders of the other settlements in Gush
Etzion were taken into captivity in Jordan and were released only in
1950.
After the capture of Gush Etzion, the Arabs systematically
destroyed every trace of Jewish life here, including uprooting
thousands of fruit trees planted by the settlers who had reclaimed the
barren hills and established a viable agricultural economy. In their
place, the Jordanian army built an army base and various encampments
that for 19 years had a commanding view of the entire Israeli coast.
For 19 years Jews were not allowed to set foot on their land and were
only able to view it from the outskirts of Jerusalem.
On other portions of the Jewish land in Gush Etzion, the Jordanians
built the Daheisha Palestinian refugee camp; the land to this day is
registered in the name of the Jewish National Fund.
The Jordanians proceeded to annex the entire "West Bank" (a
euphemism invented by the Hashemite regime to describe its newly
annexed province, what had been known throughout time as Judea and
Samaria).
In 1967, after being attacked without provocation by Jordanian
troops in Jerusalem and elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli troops
acting in self-defense re-entered Gush Etzion and other areas of Judea
and Samaria and expelled the Jordanian forces. Three months after Judea
and Samaria were liberated, the children of the original inhabitants of
Kfar Etzion petitioned the government of Israel to return to the site
of their kibbutz, and they received permission. Thus began the
restoration of Jewish life in Gush Etzion.
Today, there are 15 communities in the Etzion Bloc, administered by
a regional council. In addition there is a sizable town called Efrat,
founded by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin in the 1980s, that numbers some 10,000
souls, and the soon-to-be city of Beitar Ilit with some 20,000
inhabitants.
The modern Jewish communities of Gush Etzion are the successors in a
virtually unbroken chain of Jewish settlement in Judea that began in
the time of Abraham, two thousand years before the first Arab settled
here. The Jews of Gush Etzion are not interlopers or trespassers. They
are the "Indians" (Native Americans) who have returned to their ancient
home. They are part of the long and unending chain of Jewish "settlers"
who have been part of this landscape since the time of Abraham.
The name of our people, the Jews, is taken from the tribe, region,
province, kingdom of Yehuda (Judah/Judea), whose heartland encompassed
these very hills of Gush Etzion and Hebron for millennia. Today, the
formerly barren hills are dotted with flourishing Jewish villages,
towns, and cities.
What kind of peace can there be if the Jews cannot live and build
in Judea? If the world denies the legitimacy of our habitation in the
hills of Gush Etzion and Judea, it denies the legitimacy of the entire
Jewish state as well as the very legitimacy of the Jews as a people on
this God-given Earth.
(22 May 2002)
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ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL
Senator Jim Inhofe
Yasser Arafat and others don't recognize Israel's right to any of
the land. They do not recognize Israel's right to exist.
There are seven reasons why Israel is entitled to the land they
have and why it should not be a part of the peace process:
1. The first reason is all of the archeological evidence. Every
time there is a dig in Israel, it supports the fact that Israelis have
had a presence there for 3,000 years. The coins, the cities, the
pottery, the culture - there is no mistaking the fact that Israelis
have been present in that land for 3,000 years. The Israelis are in
fact descended from the original Israelites.
2. The second is the historic right. We know there had been an
Israel until the time of the Roman Empire. The Romans conquered the
land, but there was always a Jewish presence in the land. The homeland
that Britain said it would set aside [for the Jews in the Balfour
Declaration] consisted of all of what is now Israel and all of what is
now the nation of Jordan. Where was this great Palestinian nation? It
did not exist. Palestine was a region named by the Romans. The nation
became populated by both Jews and Arabs because the land came to
prosper when Jews came back and began to reclaim it.
3. The third reason that the land belongs to Israel is the
practical value of the Israelis being there. Israel today is a modern
marvel of agriculture. Israel is able to bring more food out of a
desert environment than any other country in the world.
4. The fourth reason Israel has the right to the land is on the
grounds of humanitarian concern. There were 6 million Jews
slaughtered in Europe in World War II. These people have a right to
their homeland. If we are not going to allow them a homeland in the
Middle East, then where? They are not asking for a great deal. The
whole nation of Israel would fit into my home State of Oklahoma seven
times or into the State of Georgia seven times.
5. The fifth reason is that Israel is a strategic ally of the
United States. Israel is an impediment to certain groups hostile to
democracies and hostile to what we believe in. They have kept them from
taking complete control of the Middle East. It is good to know we have
a friend in the Middle East on whom we can count. They vote with us in
the United Nations more than England, more than Canada, more than
France, more than Germany - more than any other country in the world.
6. The sixth reason is that Israel is a roadblock to terrorism. We
need every ally we can get. If we do not stop terrorism in the Middle
East, it will be on our shores. If Israel were driven into the sea
tomorrow, terrorism would not end.
7. I believe very strongly that we ought to support Israel because
God said so. In Genesis 13:14-17, the Bible says: The Lord said to
Abraham, "Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are
northward, and southward, and eastward and westward: for all the land
which you see, to you will I give it, and to your seed forever."
(U.S. Senate, 4 March 2002)
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Special People:
CULTURE OF THE WEST
Amir Gilat
On normal days, Eric Seidel, 53, an American Jew, serves as advisor
to the department of investigations of the New York prosecutor's
office, where he is deputy director of the section for the war on
organized crime. But in recent weeks he was unable to make do with
reports from CNN and decided to come to Israel and volunteer for three
weeks of army reserve duty.
This is Seidel's third time volunteering for such service. He first
came here in 1982, at the beginning of the war in Lebanon, and served
in Beirut. The second time was during the first intifada, when he
served for a few weeks in the Gaza area.
Q: Where do you feel you are fighting more against terror, here on
patrol with the Border Patrol, or in your office in New York?
Seidel: "Certainly here. In America, even after September 11th and
its many lessons, the terror is something more general, distant. Here
in Israel the terrorist threat is every day, in sight. In addition,
here I have this" - and he indicates the barrel of his rifle, his
personal weapon.
Q: Aren't you afraid?
Seidel: "In truth, fear doesn't enter my mind. I think only about
the importance of the task that the Border Patrol is fulfilling; that's
what occupies me."
Seidel's oldest daughter, 23, came to Israel and completed a full
tour of duty in the IDF.
In the Border Patrol, they say that Seidel's presence has
contributed much, and not only because every additional fighter helps
the force to fulfill its mission in the field, but especially for its
contribution to values. "They suddenly see a man like this appear, from
overseas, with a willingness to contribute and volunteer, and this has
a great impact," said officer Malka.
(From _Maariv_ Weekend, 25 Jan 02, p. 20+)
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THE LAST ZIONIST
Amanda Borschel
What brings a 26-year-old American immigrant with a Masters in
economics to join the Israeli army for three long years of combat duty?
David Hart grew up in California, led a typical, middle-class life, and
received a solid Jewish education. He first came to Israel in 1997 as a
Yozma Fellow from the Samuel Bronfman Foundation.
Hart says, "For me, I saw the Army as a means of absorption.
Through the army you feel like you're Israeli, part of the culture."
Because he holds an advanced degree in a field useful to the Army, he
could have been an economist and an officer, an office job with cushy
conditions of service. "I decided I didn't want to be inside at a desk.
I decided to join a combat unit."
Having completed basic training, Hart and his unit have now been
posted to a new permanent position - in Hebron and the surrounding
area.
(From _In Jerusalem_, 25 Jan 02, p. 12)
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Our Arab Neighbors:
"GEE, I DIDN'T KNOW ARAFAT WAS SO TALL"
Ehud Ya'ari
On the very day that the Oslo agreements were implemented and
Arafat arrived at the Rafah terminal in Gaza in peace and euphoria, a
young Israeli soldier looked into the car and then remarked to his
comrade: "Gee, I didn't know Arafat was so tall."
Arafat's kaffiyah was scraping the ceiling, and in a Mercedes you
have to be an NBA player for that to happen. It turned out that Arafat
was sitting on somebody whom he was smuggling in - Jihad Amarin - and
Mamduh Nofal, the former military commander of the Democratic Front,
was hiding in the trunk.
(Jerusalem Issue Brief, 30 June 2002;
http://www.jcpa.org/art/brief1-25.htm)
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HORSE THIEVES AND LIARS
Liat Collins
In December 2001, Image, a pregnant, seven-year-old racehorse, was
stolen from her home on Kibbutz Gilgal in the Jordan Valley. The
following month she was discovered in the yard of a Palestinian police
officer in Jericho.
Israeli detectives have not only seen the horse, they actually took
photos of her as the Palestinian officer rode her in his yard, close to
the Israeli-controlled area. The Israeli police contacted the
Palestinians via the District Coordination Office. Faced with the photo
of Image as irrefutable proof, the Palestinians promised to return the
mare. But when the owner, accompanied by Israeli police officers,
arrived at the checkpoint to receive the thoroughbred, jet-black
racehorse, the Palestinians brought forward a small, old donkey that
could barely walk.
"I really love Image," says her owner, Yuval Sharon. "She comes
like a pet dog when I call her and I only hope that the guy who is
holding her knows to treat her like one of his children, because that's
how I treated her."
(From _Jerusalem Post_ Magazine, 1 Mar 02, p. 4)
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WHO KILLED MUHAMMAD AL-DURA?
Amnon Lord
Muhammad Al-Dura, the poster child of the current Palestinian
uprising, was NOT killed by IDF gunfire at Netzarim junction, according
to an inquiry by the German ARD television network based on a study by
Israeli physicist Nahum Shahaf. In the videotapes of the area in front
of the Palestinian position - in the area that is supposed to be under
IDF fire - one can see the audience. Close to 200 men, teenagers, and
children are standing there in two or three rows, with the people in
the front row sitting on the edge of the sidewalk. Passing next to them
are teenagers riding on bicycles. Furthermore, the father's testimony
that Muhammad was hit in the back does not square with the claim that
he was shot by IDF soldiers.
(_Jerusalem Viewpoints_ - Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs;
http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp482.htm)
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