involves Israelis and Palestini-
ans equally. But from the be-
ginning, there has been a
blatant lack of symmetry in the
reactions of the two sides.
The Palestinians have been
marching up and down the
streets of the West Bank, Gaza
and east Jerusalem, honking
their horns, waving flags and
cheering. In Israel, with the ex-
ception of a few well-planned
demonstrations, nobody is
marching, nobody is cheering.
The most typical response one

Palestinians are all
excited, but the
typical reaction of
Israelis is, "We'll
see what happens.
I hope things turn
out all right."

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hears is, "We'll see what hap-
pens. I hope things turn out al-
right."
The focus of the settlers' re-
action has been at Beit El, near
Ramallah, where settler Haim
Mizrachi was murdered by Fa-
tah terrorists at the end of Oc-
tober, and where some settlers
attacked Palestinian motorists
and burned Palestinian prop-
erty in revenge.
Yitzhak Recanati lives in Beit
El, and he joined some of the
raging, tire-burning demon-
strations there. On the follow-
ing mornings, he would get into
his car and drive across the
Green Line into Tel Aviv, where
he owns an insurance compa-
ny. In a sense, he lives and
works in two different countries.
"At work, people who know I
live in Beit El ask about the sit-
uation, and we talk about it," he
said. "But with the others, it
never comes up. I get the feel-
ing they don't know what's go-
ing on, and it all passes over
their heads."
For nearly all Israelis, the
West Bank and Gaza are a for-
eign country, a dangerous, off-
limits territory. Whatever the
politicians and diplomats de-
cide, it will affect life over there,
they figure, not in Kfar Saba
and Tel Aviv and the rest of
what's known as "Israel prop-
er" or "Green Line Israel."
That is, unless the current
level of Palestinian terror reach-
es the point where life in the ter-
ritories is untenable, and
Israelis on the safe side of the
line no longer have a day or two
respite before they can go back
to being indifferent. Negotia-
tions are hard to follow, and the
prospects of peace are vague,
but if Jews are being killed with
regularity, even• over there, it
gets to Israelis right away. El

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