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Monday, November 8, 2010

Israel artists boycott new theater in settlement

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101108/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_settlement_boycott
By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press

JERUSALEM – An artists' boycott of a $11 million performing arts center opening Monday in the Jewish settlement of Ariel is giving a new twist to a pressing question — where should Israel's permanent borders run?

Leading Israeli playwrights, actors and artists say they will not cross the "Green Line" — Israel's frontier before it captured the West Bank in 1967 — to perform in the new theater in Ariel, an Israeli enclave of 19,000 people. The artists wrote in a letter explaining the boycott that Ariel was built in the heart of a war-won land to prevent creation of a Palestinian state....read more

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