Israel 60 years on
Source: MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images
An Israeli boy shows his national flag in Kibbutz Kfar Etzion on April 29, 2008. Sixty years after the creation of Israel, Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank find themselves at the heart of the seemingly intractable conflict with the Palestinians. At the emblematic Kfar Etzion settlement, where Arab fighters massacred 127 Jews 60 years ago on the eve of Israel's independence, hopes for peace with the Palestinians don't run high and residents say they're there to stay.
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