Epstein Secrets

would be in charge of one of Israel’s three regional military commands, and we were based on the edge of Jerusalem, with security responsibility for the West Bank. This was my first direct exposure to the combustible mix of restive Palestinians and the growing number of Jewish settlers. Our main brief was to p

Bank settler. Terrorism, no less than the worst Arab attacks on Israeli civilians. The settler was named Baruch Goldstein, a physician, who lived in Kiryat Arba. One of the first post-1967 Jewish settlements, it sat on a hill outside the West Bank town of Hebron. At the heart of Hebron lay the burial pla

would be in charge of one of Israel's three regional military commands, and we were based on the edge of Jerusalem, with security responsibility for the West Bank. This was my first direct exposure to the combustible mix of restive Palestinians and the growing number of Jewish settlers. Our main brief was to pr

Bank settler. Terrorism, no less than the worst Arab attacks on Israeli civilians. The settler was named Baruch Goldstein, a physician, who lived in Kiryat Arba. One of the first post-1967 Jewish settlements, it sat on a hill outside the West Bank town of Hebron. At the heart of Hebron lay the burial pla

l essays have been trans- lated into 20 languages, is an outspoken advo- cate of conciliation with the Arabs and of ending Israel's occupation of the West Bank. But, like most Israelis, David Grossman supported Israel's retaliation when Hezbollah fighters attacked an artily patrol inside Israel on July 1

end, but it never does." From the residents sweating it out in shelters to those in the bunker that serves as the mayor's office, the people in Kiryat Shmona were deeply pessimistic that the U.N. truce. ' set to take effect this morning, would bring them quiet. Most believed it would take a wee