Volume 37, Number 15 · October 11, 1990
Making Way for the Messiah
By Robert I. Friedman
'The Saddamization of Kuwait has won us a lot of friends,' said Rabbi Yechiel Leiter, the mayor of a small Jewish settlement in the center of downtown Hebron on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. As far as Leiter and other militant settlement leaders I talked to recently are concerned, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait greatly buttresses their claim that, in a treacherous neighborhood, Jewish settlements reinforce Israel's security.
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