THE LAST WORD: the promised land.(Brief Article)

Commonweal | September 24, 1999| | Copyright

Our bus has inch-thick, tinted, bullet-proof windows, which make our journey through the West Bank both quiet and dim. We take a tunnel beneath the Palestinian-controlled city of Bethlehem to avoid stone throwers or other trouble, and stop briefly in the walled-in Jewish enclave of Kiryat Arba. Pulling into the old town square in Hebron, I sense that we have arrived at the front line.

I have caught the ride to Hebron on a tour bus with an entourage of American Orthodox Jews who are making a religious pilgrimage. Our guide is David Wilder, a fortyish former American ...

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