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ast Monday morning,
in a rocky gully near
the Arab village of Beit
Hanina, a search party
found the dead bodies of two
Israeli teenagers, Ronen
Karmani and Lior Tubol.
The two friends left home
on Saturday night to visit
their girlfriends, but they
never got there. Instead,
they were kidnapped, bound
and gagged, stabbed to death
and then left to fester among
the limestone and the
tumbleweed.
Although the killers have
not yet been apprehended,
security forces believe that
they were a gang of Arabs,
motivated by anti-Jewish
hatred.
The news of the murder set
off a violent reaction in the
Jewish neighborhoods of
West Jerusalem. Mobs,
estimated by the commander
of the border police to
number tens of thousands,
took to the streets, where
they stoned passing cars
with West Bank license
plates and attacked Pales-
tinian workers on their way
home.
In many cases, the demon-
strators were women and
small children. In the
Talpiot industrial zone, ter-
rified Arab workers hid in
factories. In the nearby Patt
neighborhood, a Palestinian
driver lost control of his car
when it was hit by a barrage
of stones. The driver was
badly injured and taken to
the hospital; while he was
still in the ambulance, the
crowd burned his car. No
Arabs were killed, but tens
were wounded, and hun-
dreds of automobiles were
battered.
Throughout the day, police
efforts to disburse crowds
and keep control met with
only partial success. At one
point, embattled capital
police called for rein-
forcements and asked per-
mission to make mass ar-
rests, but a senior com-
mander, afraid of further in-
- , vetoed
flaming the cri:x d
the request.
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Murder Rocks
The Family
The brutal slaying of two Israeli
teenagers, presumably by a gang of
Arabs, has plunged the Jewish state
into a storm of rage and mourning.
ZE'EV CHAFETS
Israel Correspondent
"No arrests, just keep the
roads open and try to calm
things down," he told the
cops. As a result of this re-
straint, only 12 Jews were
detained during the course
of the disturbances. At the
end of the day, Jerusalem
Police Chief Ayreh Bibi
called it the most violent an-
ti-Arab outburst in the city's
recent history.
The murder of Karrnani
and Tubol was the latest in a
series of attacks on Jewish
lives and property in
Jerusalem. Ten days earlier,
a West Bank Arab unsuc-
cessfully tried to kidnap two
teen-age hitchhikers near
Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. The
youngsters managed to
escape, and the assailant
was later apprehended by
police.
In an impassioned state-
ment following the discovery
of the bodies, Eliahu Kar-
mani, father of one of the
dead boys, begged other
parents to protect their chil-
dren from Arab violence.
"I'm warning everyone,"
he said. "Accompany your
children with guns. Teach
them not to take rides with
strangers."
Others were less concerned
with defense than with
revenge. Avi Tobol, the
uncle of Lior Tobol, arrived
at the scene of the crime
shortly after the corpses
were discovered.
"We will take our own
revenge," he screamed at
the chief of the national
police, Ya'akov Turner. "We
are Algerians, and our mafia
is a thousand times worse
than the Arabs. For us, the
law of 'an eye for an eye' is
holy. We will tear up our
Israeli passports and use our
French passports to find the
killers. We will search for
them to the ends of the ear-
th, and we will destroy
them."
Throughout the tense city,
this sentiment was repeated
by Jews fed up with the con-
stant tatoo of Arab violence.
"I threw rocks at them,
and I'm not ashamed," said
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