A Window Into the West Bank’s ‘Wildest, Most Violent’ Areas

From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by James Glanz was published by NYT on May 23, 2016.

 

YISHUV HADAAT, West Bank — With shoulder-length hair tumbling from beneath his knit skullcap, Hanamel Dorfman, a radical young Israeli settler, explains matter-of-factly on camera how hilltop settlement outposts like his own will continue to proliferate across the West Bank. From there, he says bluntly, Israelis will cross the Jordan River and start building on the other side.

Reminded that beyond the river there is another sovereign nation, Jordan, Mr. Dorfman says with an unwavering gaze, ‘Everything is temporary.’

 

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