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On Guard in the West Bank

Is this me? Eight o\’clock on a Tuesday evening, I\’m strolling down the ordinary street of my town, carrying an M-16 rifle. Tonight, it\’s my turn again to do shmirah, guard duty, a chore required about once a month of every male resident here at Beit Yattir, the West Bank village where I live part time.

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