Foreign journalists who participated in a tour organized by a Jewish settler group gather around Israeli Eliana Passentin, center, outside her house in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Eli, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. The settlers said they were trying to show the world they're regular folks trying to live peaceful lives. But the bus' bulletproof windows, the ubiquitous barbed wire and the watch towers keeping guard over the settlers' homes betrayed an existence that is anything but normal. AP Photo logo AP Photo 39 months ago

Foreign journalists who participated in a tour organized by a Jewish settler group gather around Israeli Eliana Passentin, center, outside her house in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Eli, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. The settlers said they were trying to show the world they're regular folks trying to live peaceful lives. But the bus' bulletproof windows, the ubiquitous barbed wire and the watch towers keeping guard over the settlers' homes betrayed an existence that is anything but normal.

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