With Gaza as Their Guide, Some Settlers in West Bank Seek a Way Out

From: The Washington Post | Date: August 11, 2005| Author: Scott Wilson | Copyright information

After working for years in the West Bank for Israel's security services, Benny Raz moved into a two-story home in this leafy Jewish settlement that he could never have afforded without the government's financial help.

"It was like a dream," Raz said of his time in these rocky hills before the Palestinian uprising began, before his concrete company collapsed, before the value of his house fell from $120,000 to a third of that today. Now, after seven years of living along its red- brick ...

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