| Subject: New York Times Magazine: May 12, 2002 |
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Date Posted: 05:25:29 05/29/02 Wed
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BOTH sides are at fault, and
's message, "I've never said the Palestinians were not at fault. My point-- too subtle for you, I know-- is that" on 05:22:57 05/29/02 Wed
MAGAZINE DESK | May 12, 2002, Sunday
An Impossible Occupation
By Scott Anderson (NYT) 8056 words
Late Edition - Final, Section 6, Page 34, Column 1
LEAD PARAGRAPH - "Through a crack in the drawn curtain of his third-floor perch, Yigal Kelman uses the magnified scope of his sniper rifle to study the Palestinian family that has emerged onto a rooftop terrace some 300 yards away.
The family appears harmless enough -- a man in his early 40's, two younger women, an old lady with a white head scarf -- but the Israel Defense Forces have placed the town of Atil, in the West Bank, under a blanket curfew: no one allowed outside, and that includes on terraces. What makes Kelman especially nervous about this particular rooftop is that it stands on high ground, and a gunman hidden there would have a commanding view over his own position. Stepping back from the window, he quietly slips a high-powered, hollow-tip bullet into the rifle's firing chamber and assumes the sniper's stance: feet apart, weight slightly back, a slow, steady exhalation of breath.
Slowly he pulls the trigger, and the older woman drops to the ground."
Happy now Kenny?
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