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At Yeshiva Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway, second grade talmidim of Rav Nachum Nachumson prepared for the Sukkot festival as they examined the arba minim that were brought in by their rebbe. The holiday begins Sunday night.

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Analysis by Yoav Limor, JNS The intense focus on the Iranian issue, and in recent months on a possible military escalation in Gaza, has distracted us from a simple fact: The most complicated front Israel must contend with is Judea and Samaria. The constant friction between millions of Palestinians and hundreds of thousands of Israelis, the need to defend hundreds of communities and thousands of kilometers of roads and maintain access to the country’s center — all these factors continuously foster terrorism, whether by organizations using weapons and explosive devices, or lone attackers who need nothing more than a knife. The reason attacks like Sunday’s lethal stabbing outside the Gush Etzion Junction shopping mall (see pages 4, 6 and 21) do not happen every day is because of prevention. Every night, usually based on intelligence from the Shin Bet security agency, IDF forces raid the homes of dozens of young Palestinian men and women suspected of planning attacks. Last year, some 4,000 such Palestinians were arrested; for many others, a warning or reprimand to their parents was able to achieve the same effect. Sunday’s attack is frustrating not only because of its deadly result, but See Terror on page 2

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Seasons bankrupt By Ed Weintrob Seasons, the upscale Long Island-based kosher supermarket chain with national ambitions, filed for bankruptcy protection this week. In its Chapter 11 petition, filed electronically on Sunday night, Seasons reported $42 million in liabilities and $31 million in book-valued assets, with millions owed to vendors, landlords, banks and the fomrer owners of Supersol. Supersol stores formed the core of the original Seasons empire. News of the filing was first reported late Monday by the Commercial Observer. On Tuesday morning, erev Yom Kippur, and on Thursday after yom tov, Seasons stores in Lawrence and Kew Gardens Hills were open, although shelves were not fully stocked. Departments operSee Seasons on page 15

‘Obstacles to peace’ is the original fake news JonaThan S. Tobin

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ne more Jewish life was just added to the list of those killed in the century-old conflict between Jews and Arabs. Last Sunday, a Palestinian terrorist fatally stabbed to death Ari Fuld, a 45-year-old American immigrant to Israel, married father of four, and articulate advocate for the Jewish state. But for some people, the only relevant fact about him is that he was a resident of Efrat, a Jerusalem suburb that lies over the so-called Green Line in the West Bank. Efrat is part of the Etzion bloc, originally

settled by Jews before 1948. But in the eyes of the world, it is still a settlement, and Fuld a “settler.” Like the hundreds of thousands of other Jews who live in the West Bank and Jerusalem, Fuld was reviled as an obstacle to peace. That’s why the reaction to attacks like this is so often heartless indifference, if not gloating. Not only Palestinians who consider all violence against Jews justified acts of “resistance” hold this attitude. Across the world, even among many Jews, “settler” is an epithet. Since the Oslo Accords were signed 25 years ago, settlements and settlers have become all-purpose scapegoats for the lack of peace, undeserving of sympathy even when slain by terrorists. hile most Israelis have embraced a hardheaded realism, myths about the Israeli right and about settlers killing

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prospects for peace continue to be aired in the media. The latest example is the “Oslo Diaries,” a documentary that debuted on HBO last week that explains the antipathy for settlers. Made with genuine sympathy for Israel and a commendable desire to explore both points of view, the film reviews the familiar story of the secret talks that led to the agreement. But it also bolsters false narratives about what happened after the handshake on the White House lawn.

Oslo Diaries puts forward the thesis that there were two peace camps — one in Israel, led by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and his government, and the other led by Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat. Opposing them were two anti-peace camps — one led by current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party, and the other composed of Hamas and other Palestinians who opposed peace. See Obstacles on page 2


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