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FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1988

Illusion

Continued from preceding page

colored houses gleam. They
are built of poured concrete —
standard construction in the
Middle East — and faced with
stone, tile and stucco. They
have arched windows. Many
are capped proudly with a
television antenna shaped
like the Eiffel Tower.
Then, as I am almost lulled
off guard by the tranquility of
the place and the enthusiasm
of my young guides, the
ironies of the Arab-Israeli
conflict give me a poke. As I
am ready to climb into a taxi,
the group's ringleader, a
spirited, beguiling boy of
about 8, who speaks almost
no English, says to me, "The
Jews are the enemies of the
Palestinians. The Jews are
my enemies."
He recites this slogan
almost like handshake, like a
farewell embrace.

Between the
Illusions

F

rom everything said
and written about
Israel these past
months, one would have
thought that the streets of
Israel are deserted. They are
not.
On Motzei Shabbat —
Saturday night —
Jerusalem comes alive from
its Sabbath rest and the ci-
ty center is jammed with
people. Cafe tables lining
the streets are crowded.
Long lines of people wait for
pizza, felafel, shwarma and
Chinese food. Musicians
play and Ben Yehudah
Street, a pedestrian
walkway, is clogged.
Israelis no longer go to
east Jerusalem and few visit
the Old City or the Kotel,
the Western Wall. The holy
places are still a must for
tourists, but there is no
question that tourism is
down.
"The Arabs are con-
noisseurs at making Israel
look small and like the bad
guy," one shopkeeper com-
plains. "And they've done a
real good job of it."
Rioting was always
sporadic and usually confin-
ed to refugee camps and
Arab towns. As the summer
went on, violence diminish-
ed. Detroiters who have
sizzled through triple-digit
temperatures at home will
understand why. "In heat
like this," says one Israeli,
"who could stand outside all
day and throw stones?"
Still, the intifada has
made its presence felt in
central Israel. In two con-
secutive weeks, Molotov
cocktails were thrown from
building tops into crowded
pedestrian areas in Tel Aviv

A Jerusalem girl walks home from school with a popsicle.

and Jerusalem. They caused
no injuries.
The increased need for
policing the territories has
forced the IDF to double
miluim, or reserved duty, to
60 days a year.
Israelis reserve their
greatest anger not for the
Palestinians, but for the
media. Over 300 foreign
journalists are permanently
stationed in Israel, the third
largest corps after the
United States and the
Soviet Union. The intifada
has brought an additional
1,000 reporters and
cameramen to Israel.
Over and over, Israelis
damn the media reports
beamed around the world
since December. They say
the coverage lacks perspec-
tive. Perspective would have
shown the Israelis in a
much fairer light, they say.
But perspective comes, not
through a 30-second news
report, but through quiet
encounters, by probing
beneath the skin of the con-
flict, by gingerly passing
between the illusions of the
Israeli-Palestinian dilem-
ma. By doing so, one may
discover perspective in the
most unexpected places.
At the swimming pool of
the luxurious Hyatt Hotel
at the foot of Mount Scopus
in Jerusalem, three
members of the hotel health
club strike up a

conversation.
One is a young Israeli
woman. The others, a
brother and sister, are
Palestinian.
Almost inexorably, their
talk is drawn to the Arab-
Israeli conflict and the in-
tifada, which they are living
even as they sip Cokes at the
poolside.
"Nearly all Israelis and
Palestinians believe there
should be two states," the
Palestinian man says.
He brushes aside the
significance of the Palesti-
nian covenant that calls for
Israel's destruction, and
even the efficacy of PLO
leaders like Yassir Arafat.
"You have your extremists
like [Kach leader Rabbi
Meld Kahane. We have
them as well."
"This is not Algeria or
Libya, where the French
and Italians could go back to
France and Italy," he says.
"Besides Israel, where else
could the Jews go?"
He says the intifada has
achieved no political goals.
What it has achieved, he
says, is the focus of world at-
tention on the Palestinians.
When told that Arab-
Americans are boycotting
Hyatt Hotels because, say
protesters, the Jerusalem
Hyatt is built on confiscated
Arab land, the two Palesti-
nians laugh. They call the
boycott silly.

