1. But here on a Valley Center hilltop sits a brazenly modern structure with metal-wrapped walls cantilevered over a luxuriant orange orchard. 2. In this stronghold of the ethnic Pashtun, amid the run-down palaces, the chaotic bazaar and the lush orange orchards, there is intrigue and deception. 3. Thursday, in the village of Beit Hassan, near Nablus, Israeli helicopters attacked an isolated house in an orange orchard with rockets and machine-gun fire. 4. And then we were speeding in the open plateau towards Marrakech, with its Moorish city walls and minarets and orange orchards. |