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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1989

AMERICAN ISRAEL CORPORATION

erusalem — Take
Egged bus No. 23 from
the Hebrew University
on Mount Scopus to the
center of town, and you might
get the feeling transport plan-
ners went out of their way to
include as many dangerous
spots as possible on the route.
The bus travels along the
eastern edge of East Jeru-
salem's Sheikh Jarrah quar-
ter, not far from the memorial
to Hadassah Hospital doctors
killed by Arab rioters in the
War of Independence. It
makes a right turn onto Para-
troop Brigade, the street that
runs along the northern edge
of the Old City, and another
right on Salah e-Din, Arab
East Jerusalem's main shop-
ping street. It doubles back
past the new Arab bus ter-
minal near the Jewish
quarter of Musrara, along
Nablus Road towards
Damascus Gate, right again
along the Old City wall, and
finally up Jaffa Road, the
main street, into Jewish
Jerusalem.
Several weeks ago, a 23 bus
on a regular run — but carry-
ing no passengers — was
petrol-bombed and gutted in
Sheikh Jarrah. The incident
was the latest of many at-
tacks on the line since the
beginning of the intifada.
"Most Jews don't take the
bus anymore!" one of the
regular drivers on the route
said the day after the firebom-
bing. "I make a point of tell-
ing passengers the bus goes
through the Arab sector.
Then they can decide for
themselves. Some back off
because of the rocks. Others
don't mind."
About 10 passengers, split
more or less evenly between
Jews and Arabs, take up the
challenge, on one run.
The trip seems like any
other until the bus reaches
Sheikh Jarrah and head
along a winding road
overlooking the Kidron
Valley. Suddenly, the bus
picks up speed and careens
back and forth with every
twist and turn of the road.
"I always shoot past this
part," the driver says. "I just
want to get it over with. I
don't feel all that good about
it. Sometimes there are
women driving in the middle
of the road and I know I can
knock them over the side."
The thought passes quickly.
"This is where we get it all
the time," he continues, point-

ing to a hill near the Rocke-
feller Museum. The bus turns
right past the first hurdle.
"Stones, petrol bombs. They
ambush us from here?'
Next comes Salah e-Din,
the commercial hub of East
Jerusalem. For a time, stone-
throwing by Arab children on
their way home from school
was a daily event. "We don't
travel here between 11 a.m.
and 2 p.m.," the driver says.
"It was impossible. See that
bus turning left? That's a
number 27. One of them was
half destroyed by a petrol
bomb a few days ago — right
here."
The bus heads past the bus
terminal. "A couple of months
ago a bunch of us were sitting
around, talking. The buses
were parked. Within four
minutes, they (Arabs) had
broken every window.
"For a while we used to
cheat by skipping this part of
the route." The bus turns on-
to Nablus Road. "The bosses
fined us but sometimes it was
worth it just to avoid this
part. See how the cars
squeeze each other off the
road?
"This is where I got it. At
the intersection. Stones
through the window. What
stones? They were blocks!' he
says. His hands make a rec-
tangle, with plenty of air in
between.
"And you know what the
worst thing was? There were
no police around. What kind
of country is this?"
He points at his watch. "I
waited eight minutes for the
police to come. By the time
they got here I was so mad I
didn't want to tell them any-
thing. Look, I don't want to
tell them how to do their jobs,
but I see the Border Police-
men at Damascus Gate flirt-
ing with the girls, showing
off. It doesn't do any good ar-
resting a lot of people after an
incident. You have to be there
to nab them on the spot."
"You see, it's all politics.
They tell us we have to make
our presence felt in every part
of the city. But sometimes I
ask myself what I am doing.
Is this my job or am I in do-
ing a stint in the army
reserves? I just got back from
a month in Kalkilya."
The bus, in the meantime,
has made the turn onto Jaffa
Road and safety. "Try the one
at 6 p.m.," he says almost
apologetically, as his
passengers prepare to get off.
"That one gets stoned every
other day."

1989 Jerusalem Post

