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After Rocket Attack, an Israeli City Seems Resigned to More in the Future


(New York Times) Jodi Rudoren and Irit Pazner Garshowitz - Rishon Lezion, Israel's fourth-largest city, seven miles south of Tel Aviv, was struck by a rocket from Gaza on Nov. 20. In its aftermath, many residents are resigned to the unlikeliness of a long-term solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in their lifetimes. Ayal Sheffer, 43, said, "I just want quiet for my children and my country." But as for the Palestinians, he added, "I don't think any contract we'd do with them would give us quiet." A poll on behalf of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs found that 83% of Israeli Jews do not believe that a withdrawal to the 1967 borders and a division of Jerusalem would bring an end to the conflict.
2013-01-01 00:00:00
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