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Evacuation in Hebron

The settlers are fooling themselves if they think their campaign to hold onto the West Bank will be determined by force. Rather, the fate of the West Bank will be determined by politics and public opinion. By those measures, today’s showdown in Hebron cannot have helped, writes JTA Managing Editor Uriel Heilman.

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Good news from Hebron

Just days after Jewish settlers in Hebron defaced Muslim gravestones with Stars of David—borrowing a page from neo-Nazi thugs in Europe—The New York Times finds some good news in Hebron: Israeli and Palestinian security forces are cooperating in the volatile city to bring down crime and intra-Palestinian violence, and ward off confrontations between Arabs and Jewish extremists.

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