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July 3, 2009/Tammuz 11 5769, Volume 61, No. 42
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The view from a West Bank hilltop
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"The water is out again," Batsie Zar shouts to her husband, Itai, from the kitchen.
He quickly gets on his cell phone, trying to get one of the other young men in the isolated hilltop settlement of Havat Gilad - one of about 100 illegal settlement outposts across the West Bank - to turn it back on.
If it's not the water, it's the creaky generator for electricity that fails, Itai Zar cheerfully complains as a pitched wind whistles against the window panes of his compact home. In the winter, a fire crackles in the wood stove Zar welded together himself to cook meals for the family.
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Lighting a Jewish fuse on the Fourth
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Red, white and bluish, and Jewish, the Fourth of July this year falls on Shabbat.
Whether you spend the day in synagogue, at the park, with your feet up on a recliner or barbecuing in the yard, you can bring a Jewish spark or two to the day.
We know the Jewish words of independence and freedom are inscribed all about us, notably the inscription from Leviticus on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, "Proclaim liberty throughout the land," and Jewish poet Emma Lazarus' words on the base of the Statue of Liberty, "Send us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses ..."
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Supremacists held in Scottsdale mail bomb case
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Two brothers were arrested last week on charges of sending a mail bomb that injured three City of Scottsdale employees in February 2004.
Dennis and Daniel Mahon, who were indicted by a federal grand jury at the Arizona U.S. District Court on June 16, have been monitored by the Anti-Defamation League for several years for their involvement in white supremacist activity.
The indictment charges that the brothers were involved in a conspiracy to damage buildings and property by means of an explosive; this conspiracy included promoting racial discord on behalf of the White Aryan Resistance (WAR) and teaching the tactics of terrorism with the intent that others commit violent acts on behalf of WAR.
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