The loss of innocents - Recycling of revenge deadly on both sides

SF Chronicle ^ | 6-22-02 | Ian Fisher, NYT

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Itamar, West Bank -- The mourners, maybe 3,000 of them, were angry. They scuffled here with the Israeli police and the army. They bought T-shirts that read, "No Arabs, no attacks."

Then, at the end of a week of violence, something happened Friday afternoon that laid bare this conflict's widening circle of hate, violence and revenge. A few carloads of Jewish settlers -- outraged at the deaths Thursday night of a mother and three of her children in their own home, as well as a security guard -- drove to a nearby village and shot an Arab man dead.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The "occupied territories" were not Palestinian lands.  From the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY:

"The June 1967 War was a watershed event in the history of Israel and the Middle East. After only six days of fighting, Israel had radically altered the political map of the region. By June 13, Israeli forces had captured the Golan Heights from Syria, Sinai and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, and all of Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan."