Peacemakers vow they won't be deterred by Israeli squatter violence

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Christian Peacemakers vow they won't be deterred by Israeli squatter violence.
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Holy Land crusaders of a different kind

By Daphna Berman

Volunteers for the Christian Peacemakers Team, who come to the West Bank to help Palestinians by `using the cross as an alternative to the sword,' vow they won't be deterred by settlers' violence.

Reclining on a couch against a mound of pillows, her swollen leg elevated and her broken arm placed strategically by her side, Kim Lamberty can admit she's seen better days. Though the 44-year-old peace activist is now able to walk and most of the bruises have since faded from her face and body, it's been, she says, a difficult month.

More than two weeks have passed since settlers brutally attacked Lamberty while she and another activist accompanied Palestinian children from Tuba, in the Hebron Hills area, to their elementary school in a nearby village. But recuperating this week in the Quaker house on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives, she doesn't look the least bit tired or deterred. "I knew the risks of being here," she says simply.

As a member of the Christian Peacemakers Team (CPT), Lamberty, an American from Washington D.C., firmly believes in the importance of creating an international presence in the West Bank. "I thought that settlers would be less likely to act violently," she says, motioning to her bandaged knee, "which may or may not be true." (cont)