Settlement by stealth belies promises of restraint
Hillary Clinton has praised Israel for its policy on settlers but, the displacements go on
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Maysaa Al-Kurd has lived all her life in the home her family moved into in 1956. The pomegranate tree standing in the garden was planted by her father when she was still an infant nearly half a century ago. But that hardly reassured her yesterday when she heard the Jewish settlers break into the next-door extension building her brother Nabil built to house his family in 2001.
"I heard the door opened by force," she said. "And then I heard one of them say: 'This furniture belongs to whom?'" Later she saw "with my own eyes" a settler breaking a television set. Outsid