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The looming army withdrawal brings hope and fear
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far Saba, a leafy, lovely, them more vulnerable to terror.
middle-class city of 80,000,
There is no contradiction here.
has long symbolized how Kfar Saba residents, whatever
closely Israel and the West their opinion of the peace process,
Bank are linked. Its eastern know that it is a risk, not a guar-
neighborhoods lie perhaps 50 antee, and that they are particu-
yards from the Green Line. No larly exposed.
"As a citizen of Israel, Pm in fa-
Israeli city is closer.
In the early 1980s, when the vor of the army withdrawal. As a
government of Prime Minister resident of Kfar Saba, I'm against
Menachem Begin tried to attract it," said Amnon (not his real
Jews to the West Bank, it por- name), a government civilian em-
trayed the settlements just over ployee who worked in Kalkilya
the Green Line as suburbs "five during five years of the intifada.
minutes from Kfar Saba."
In the long run, he predicted,
Today Kfar Saba symbolizes the Palestinian Authority will
the low-level anxiety most Is- gain the upper hand on Islamic
raelis feel as the army prepares terrorists because it has no choice
to withdraw from four West Bank — if anti-Israeli violence takes
Palestinian cities. A half-mile- hold, the peace process will end
wide band of orchards separates and so will the Palestinian Au-
Kfar Saba from one of those thority. What's happened so far
cities, Kalkilya.
with autonomy in Gaza — first
The right wing chose the terror, then quiet — should re-
square outside Kfar Saba's shop- peat itself in the West Bank, he
ping mall for its national demon- said.
stration against the army's
"But in the short- and medi-
pullout. About 30,000 protesters um-term, it's going to be rough,"
showed up on July 3, but most Amnon stressed. "There is a hard
were settlers and their national core of Hamas in Kalkilya, and
religious supporters. It was not a they're going to have more op-
portunities to attack across the
local crowd.
Lying about 15 miles northeast border now. Once they get back
of Tel Aviv, in the prosperous into Kalkilya, the army won't be
Sharon region, Kfar Saba is a sort able to chase them."
For the immediate future,
of provincial capital of the Labor
Party. The city's Beit Berl, named Amnon plans to be a little more
for Labor Zionist ideologue Berl careful than usual, to keep a
Katznelson, is the party's flag- closer eye on his two pre-school
ship educational/cultural/politi- daughters.
Mayor Wald also supports the
cal institute. Most residents vote
Labor or Meretz. Mayor Yitzhak army withdrawal — again, with
plenty of apprehensions. He will
Wald is a Laborite.
A Haifa University poll of Kfar not go into the details of the
Saba residents taken at the end security arrangements, but says
of June showed nearly two-thirds Kfar Saba police "will be more
favored continuing the peace watchful over Palestinians en-
process with the Palestinians. Yet tering the city." A security fence
roughly the same proportion said separating Kfar Saba and Kal-
they were scared that the army's kilya, to be patrolled by the army,
withdrawal from Kalkilya — also is expected.
For now, the problem ema-
which could begin as early as the
end of this month — would make nating from Kalkilya is property
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A demonstration against troop withdrawal took place in Kier Saba.