"What the youth of America and their observing elders saw at Bethel was the potential power of a generation that in countless disturbing ways has rejected the traditional values and goals of the U.S.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

Of 20 identifiable sites that were said to be conquered or captured by Joshua and the next generations, only two show destruction layers for this time, Hazor and Bethel.

在据说被攻占的20处可辨认的遗址中,被约书亚及其子孙所攻占，只有两处显示出当时的摧毁层，夏锁和伯特利。

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(CANNED HEAT - "GOING UP COUNTRY") And this was how the New York Times described Woodstock: "Bethel townspeople gazed in awe at the streams of hippies, but they murmured 'PEACE' to the visitors, offered free water and returned smiles.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

Chanie Luz lives in the West Bank settlement of Bethel near the Palestinian-ruled city of Ramallah.

VOA: standard.2009.05.29