TIME Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.

Current subscribers for full access. Not a TIME subscriber? .

MIDDLE EAST: West Bank: The Cruelest Conflict

Two peoples, Jewish and Palestinian, struggle for an ancient homeland

Much of it looks today as it must have looked in the time of Jesus.

Gnarled, green olive trees cling to the arid slopes while vineyards thrive in the valleys watered by the Jordan River. Donkeys and bony oxen pull ploughs to cultivate laboriously terraced hillsides where farmers for generations have carefully cleared away rocks from the sere soil. Yet television antennas sprout incongruously from the roofs of houses in Arab villages, while women in colorfully embroidered dresses still gather to wash...

Time.com on Digg

POWERED BY digg

Quotes of the Day »

ADELE, multi Grammy-award winning singer, in an interview given to Vogue before last Sunday's ceremony, on her plans to take a lengthy break. Her last album 21 was inspired by a failed relationship but the Londoner is now "madly in love"
For use in rail of Articles page or Section Fronts pages. Duplicate and change name as necesssary to distinguish.