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Words and Deeds.(Israeli-Palestinian negotiations)

Newsweek International

| June 09, 2003 | Hammer, Joshua; Chen, Joanna; Ephron, Dan; Wolffe, Richard | COPYRIGHT 2003 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

On a barren, wind-swept hilltop six miles northeast of Jerusalem, Shuki Sat has staked another new claim for Israel's future. Last year, Sat, 26, his wife and his daughter left the nearby Jewish settlement of Beit El and set up camp on this brush-covered patch of West Bank land, speckled with wildflowers and inhabited by rabbits, with two other settler families. "The land was empty," recalls Sat, a slight, bespectacled man with a knit yarmulke and an M-16 assault rifle slung over his shoulder. "So we took it." Sat and his fellow pioneers didn't bother to apply for building permits; the right-wing government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, they know, treats such ...

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