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Palestine: how a battle for land became religious
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12-7-2007 7:04 PM
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Article is brief and needs reading in its entirety to consider its overview of how a minority of religionists have turned a secular struggle into a religious one, a trend which is not completed but, the author feels, becoming increasingly dangerous.
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