The New York Times · 27 May 2001

CP-2001-026

A Conflict’s Bedrock Is Laid Bare

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Transcribed from the clipping

“Israelis ventured into the West Bank town of Ramallah for its nightlife. They spent Saturdays loading their roof racks with furniture from a West Bank market where Palestinian merchants posted signs in Hebrew and Russian.”

Context added by this archive

Shipler describes what the boundary was like when it was briefly permeable, which is the only way to show what was lost. The sub-head is Clashing Rights of Return.

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"A Conflict’s Bedrock Is Laid Bare," The New York Times, 27 May 2001. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2001-026. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2001-026

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