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try to a long stretch paved to con-
nect Psagot to the new bypass.
The new roads have also cre-
ated a troubling paradox. For al-
most a decade they have angrily
charged the government (Labor
and Likud alike) with failing to
ensure them sufficient protection.
Now that alternate routes exist,
some object to them on ideologi-
cal grounds.
"I expected the bypass would
be only a recommended route,"
says Ruhi Dinner, a 16-year vet-
eran of Ofrah who works in
Jerusalem. "Instead, the army
has closed off access to Ramallah,
and I think it's insulting that the
Arabs can travel on our roads but
we can't drive through the au-
tonomy."
Ramallah is not closed to Is-
raelis all the time. Neither does
the geography of fear always con-
form to expectations. "For a long
time we didn't take our kids with
us to Jerusalem for fear that a
bus would blow up on them," con-
fesses Nechama Alamu, a soft-
spoken Ethiopian resident of
Ofrah. Yet two weeks ago, she
and her husband took the Ra-
mallah route without thinking
twice, without being armed, and
without incident. "I suppose they
take us for Arabs," she explains
wryly.
Others have safely negotiated
the city even when their identity
could not possibly have been in
doubt. Erna Kobos recently drove
through Ramallah with an Israeli
flag flying on her car.
For her show of defiance, she
gained 20 hours in custody. But
she was arrested by the Israeli
police, not their Palestinian coun-
terparts. That was after she had
left Ramallah and on her way to
Jerusalem.
While most settlers have had
some experience, good or bad, to
relate about the effects of the re-
deployment, the abiding impres-
sion of Oslo II is that it has
advanced the "separation" be-
tween the two peoples.
Whether such "good-fences"
pragmatism may ultimately
make for good neighbors, it has
done little to erode deep-seated
stereotypes. One after another,
the friendly women of Ofrah re-
ject that Israelis and Palestini-
ans have fallen into the habit of
demonizing each other, protest-
ing that they know there are "a
lot of good people out there."
Yet, their candor often permits
blatant prejudices to show.
Nevertheless, the mood in
Ofrah is far from gloom and
doom.
"We feel that if we don't win
the struggle in our day, our chil-
dren will continue it; and we're
deeply confident about the future
of the Jewish people," Mrs. Herb-
st says.
And in any case, few believe in
the viability of a territorial com-
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