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Arab attacks on Jews have only
worsened since the Israel-PLO
peace accords were announced.
"There have been so many 'vic-
tims of peace,' and it's getting
worse," Mr. Epel said. "The whole
thing was supposed to stop the
terrorism."
As Mr. Rabin and Mr. Arafat
signed the treaty, hundreds of
Jewish settlers began marching
toward Jericho to protest the ac-
cords and the closing of the city's
yeshiva there. Some 400 were
taken to a military detention fa-
cility.
But for the most part, the en-
tire country was relatively quiet.
Hours before the signing, a few
PLO flags could be seen flying in
Jericho, but in offices, homes and
cafes the air was heavy with dis-
appointment, resentment and
doubt.
"After five months of delay, our
young people have lost enthusi-
asm for autonomy," said Rashid
Erikat, a retired U.N. district su-
pervisor and member of one of the
more influential families in
Jericho.
"After almost 30 years of occu-
pation and suffering, we expect-
ed a state — not just autonomy,"
added Mohammed Ihab Abu
Zinah, who spent much of last
year in a tent camp with the 415
other Hamas deportees in south-
ern Lebanon. "People will believe
in peace when they see a change
in their lives. But we don't expect
any change.
"We'll get money, but it will
have strings attached. Arafat will
use the rest to raise the standard
of living, but what we need is to
build the infrastructure of our
state. The police won't be able to
protect us against the Israelis,
and they'll continue to arrest us.
What we want is our rights and
our land."

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Rahamim, an Israeli border po-
liceman, was hitchhiking to his
base in Rafiah, the crossing point
between Egypt and the southern
tip of the Gaza Strip, the day be-
fore the accords were signed.
"Tomorrow, after the signing,
or the day after, we'll hand over
the command of our base to the
Palestinian police and move a few
kilometers to guard one of the
Jewish settlements," he said.
He was laughing, as if it is all
so wild as to be unbelievable.
"We're going to be patrolling
the roads together with the
Palestinians. Believe me, I don't
know how it's going to be. I hope
it works out."
Everything is changing in
Gaza: Some 1,500 Palestinian po-
lice are taking over authority for
the 800,000 Palestinians in the
refugee camps and Palestinian
towns; Israeli and Palestinian po-
licemen will begin patrolling to-
gether, trying to keep the peace.
Gush Katif is a belt of little
farming settlements in the south-
ern end of the Strip where near-
ly all of Gaza's 5,000 Jews live.
Their settlements are dominated
by big houses and lawns. They
have public swimming pools and
all the amenities of comfortable,
small-town living. Most of the
Jews are farmers, making their
money from the hothouses in the
rear of the settlements.
Outside the fence that enclos-
es Gush Katif are sand dunes,
and beyond the sand dunes is the
Khan Yunis refugee camp, where
tens of thousands of Palestinians
live in shacks.
A couple of small Israeli army
bases off the roads have been
added to this scene of late. The
soldiers were pulled out of the
refugee camps and set down in
the Gush to give the settlers more
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"We have grave concerns and
we have appointed a committee
to look into it," Mr. Lobenthal
said.
The ADL was contacted about
the indaba on Tuesday by sever-
al Jewish teachers who work in
Detroit. In addition to the ADL
and several newspapers, the
teachers filed a complaint over
Dr. Jeffries' visit with their union,
the Detroit Federation of
Teachers.
One who called The Jewish
News did not want her name
published because she feared a
backlash at school.
"We feel this has no place in
education," the teacher said. "We
wouldn't want the Ku Klux Klan
to be invited either.
"It's very frightening to teach
in this situation. The kids don't
talk like this. They know I'm
Jewish, but no students have
ever made statements like his

(Dr. Jeffries'). But when the staff
attends something like this, they
come back and look at you like
you're responsible for all their
troubles."

"Jews controlled the
slave trade."

— Leonard Jeffries

The teacher has taught in
Detroit over the last two decades,
and said that it is only recently
that she feels "people look at you
differently. It's not a black-white
thing. It seems like a black-
Jewish thing."
Detroit Public School officials
were asked to discuss Dr. Jeffries'
visit as The Jewish News went to
press Wednesday. Officials re-
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media relations office for a re-
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