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years, he says he makes about
$11 a day. (Mr. Wasserteil said
he pays his workers an average
of $14-18 per day).
"We don't have enough mon-
ey to buy food," Mr. Agad says.
He worries that there won't be
a political change. "They signed
a piece of paper — what does
that mean? Maybe there won't
be a Palestinian state after all."
And a Palestinian state is
what Khalil Agad wants. "Don't
we deserve it?" he asked.
What about Shlomo Wass-
erteil and the 5,000 other Jews
of the Gaza Strip, what do they
deserve? What should their por-
tion be in the new arrange-
ment?
"I think when peace comes,
all the land from 1967 — the
Gaza Strip, the West Bank and
east Jerusalem — has to be for
Palestine, our own state, with-
out Jews," Mr. Agad main-
tained.
Why can't the Jews stay in
Gaza? "There's not enough land
for the Palestinians," he replied.
"This is the most crowded place
in the world. The Jews have
their own country, don't they?"
What about Acre, Jaffa, Lod,
all the places where the Pales-
tinians lived before the War of
Independence. Do you want
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that, too? "No," Mr. Agad
laughed. "That's Israel."
Asked to describe his rela-
tions with Mr. Wasserteil, Mr.
Agad said, "He's the boss I'm
the worker."
Do you get along? "Sure we
get along."
Do you discuss politics with
him? "Never."
Maybe Shlomo Wasserteil
was right, maybe men like
Khalil Agad are simple, un-
comprehending souls who only
want to stay out of trouble and
take home a little salary. Maybe
they really do prefer the stabil-
ity of Israeli rule and only pre-
tend to outsiders that they want
a Palestinian state all to them-
selves because they're afraid
they would get killed if they told
the truth.
But Mr. Agad seemed quite
sincere. Maybe it's Mr.
Wasserteil who's never heard
their real story maybe the
Palestinians have been telling
him what he wants to hear be-
cause they're afraid they might
lose their jobs if they told him
the truth.
"All this politics goes over
their heads," was how Mr.
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New York (JTA) — Israeli
Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres wants three things
from American Jews: help in
absorbing immigrants, in-
vestment in the peace pro-
cess and a concerted effort to
keep their children Jewish.
In a news conference con-
ducted in Hebrew, Mr. Peres
said the worsening situation
in Russia, along with the
improving situation in
Israel, is likely to increase
immigration to the Jewish
state.
Donations to the United
Jewish Appeal's Operation
Exodus campaign pay for the
transportation of immi-
grants to Israel and a por-
tion of their initial reset-
tlement expenses.
UJA hopes to finish rais-
ing the $1.2 billion it seeks
for Operation Exodus by
next summer.
In a meeting with top UJA
officials last month, on the
day the Knesset voted to en-
dorse the recent accord with
the Palestinians, Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin
"asked us to get Exodus
moving as fast as possible,"
UJA National Chairman
Joel Tauber said after retur-
ning from a 24-hour trip to
Israel.
"It's a task of the highest
level," was the way Mr.
Peres described the immi-
grant absorption enterprise.
"It is forbidden to forget `it."
The Israeli foreign min-
ister said the second task for
American Jews, investing in
the peace process, reflects
the fact that the process is
about contacts and connec-
tions as much as it is about
politics.
Mr. Peres said President
Clinton set the proper course
when he brought American
Jewish and Arab leaders
together at the White House
immediately following the
signing of the peace accord
there Sept. 13.
Mr. Clinton asked the two
groups to cooperate in joint
ventures aimed at
rebuilding the economies of
the Gaza Strip and West
Bank, to enable the Palesti-
nians to see the fruits of
peace.