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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
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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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