A reader sent me this link to a Boston Globe photo essay on Israeli settlements in the disputed West Bank. The two pictures I have posted above are the most moving.
The first is a group of Israelis in the settlement of Bat Ayin reacting to the news that an axe-wielding Palestinian militant went on a rampage there, killing an Israeli 13-year-old and wounding a 7-year-old boy before fleeing the area. The second is an Israeli policeman arresting a Palestinian for illegally building a water canal on his land near the Israeli settlement of Qiryat Arba’a in Hebron.
The more you study the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the more you realize that it might just be a בלגן (balagan) — the Hebrew word for “a complete mess.” I don’t see any realistic way that it can be solved right now.
For more coverage on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, read this, this, and this.
