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year now, since the inaugu-
ration of the Rabin govern-
ment, Jewish residents of
the West Bank have been
fretting over and demon-
strating against the
prospect that Israeli settle-
ments will ultimately be
dismantled.
Now that the long-await-
ed breakthrough on
Palestinian autonomy has
come, the inhabitants of
Vered Jericho are worried
that just the opposite will
happen — that their settle-
ment won't be dismantled;
that anxiety will force them
to abandon it of their own
volition, and that rather
than compensate them for
its change in policy, the
Israeli government will sim-
ply abandon them to their
own fate.
"The truth is that nothing
about the new plan has
been explained to us. The
head of our local council met
with Foreign Minister Peres
and was assured that no
settlements would be dis-
mantled," Zohara said. "But
if that's true, we're in a lot
of trouble, because we'll be
in spitting distance from the
PLO."
Shlomo (Momi) Riftin,
who has lived in Vered
Jericho for 13 years and
works as a hospital admin-
istrator in Jerusalem,
explains the problem more
graphically.
"See this line," he said,
gingerly tapping the barbed-
wire of the settlement's
perimeter fence. "It runs
100 meters from my house,
and this is going to be our
border with 'the Autonomy.'
Now look down there," he
continued, pointing to the
slope below. "That's the
Akabet Jabber refugee
camp, a few hundred meters
away."
The worn, clay houses of
Akabet Jabber do, indeed,
loom large and close. "Need
I say more?"
Back in the Riftins' gar-
den, as the sun goes down,
the valley turns golden, and
a dry evening breeze finally
cuts through the stifling
heat, Momi and his wife,
Sima, struggle through the
tangle of their thoughts and
feelings to be sure they're
making themselves clear.
"Don't get me wrong,"
Momi said, speaking slowly
;,sind delibrately. "I'm not an
enemy of peace. I want it as
much as anyone in the
Middle East or the world
does, probably more. But if
Yassir Arafat is going to be
my neighbor, I want out of
here."
"It's not that our personal
experience with the Arabs
around us has been nega-
tive," explained Sima, a
nurse who works in an east
Jerusalem clinic that has a
mixed Palestinian-Israeli
staff and serves both
Palestinian and Israeli
patients. "I work with
Palestinians every day. I
worked alongside them in
our greenhouse, when we
grew flowers, and picked up
quite a bit of Arabic from
them. For years we shopped
in Jericho, and we have
friends there."
"The problem is," Momi
cut in, "there's going to be
trouble, endless trouble.
The Palestinians are divid-
ed among themselves:
Fatah, Hamas, what-
ever. There's constant talk
of a bloodbath there, and
when it all spins out of con-
trol, we'll be the first to suf-
fer."
Inevitably, perhaps, the
uncertainty, anxiety, and
mistrust that suffuse the air
in Vered Jericho quickly
escalate into anger against
the entire political estab-
lishment — left and right —
Inhabitants of
Jericho are worried.
for treating sincere, perhaps
naive, citizens like pawns in
their endless power game.
"When they inaugurated
this settlement, everyone
came for the party. Now
that we're in trouble, every-
one's disappeared," said
Zohara of the fact that no
representative of the gov-
ernment has come to Vered
to talk about its future.
Vered Jericho was settled
after the Egyptian peace
treaty was signed, the
precedent of abandoning
Israeli settlements was set,
and the idea of Palestinian
autonomy was framed in
the Camp David accords.
Perhaps, in light of these
facts, its founders should
have realized that by set-
tling anywhere over the
Green Line, they were tak-
ing a certain gamble with
destiny. But that it doesn't
ease their resentment at all
now.
Momi's bitterness runs
particularly deep. "This is
the dawn of a new era?" he
said sarcastically. "Well,
then my per-
sonal sense of mission, are
passe, finished. I hope the
government will take us out
of here and compensate us
for our property. But if not,
we'll pull up stakes anyway
and go someplace where the
long arm of the Israeli gov-
ernment can't reach us." ❑