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Asher Azaria, owner of the
manpower company, said Mr.
Gidarcha was lying. "I never
took anyone's passport; it's
against the law," he said.
Asked about the money Mr.
Gidarcha said he was owed, Mr.
Azaria replied, "What is he talk-
ing about? I didn't take any of
his money." Mr. Azaria said Mr.
Gidarcha was paid about $600
a month, not $400. "He never
had any complaints before, and
he's back at work. The foreign
workers are just trying to raise
a stink," he said, adding that
he'd heard that other companies
do exploit guest workers, but his
wasn't one of them.
Simcha Yishai, an activist at
Kay L'Oved, said manpower
companies hold onto the guest
workers' passports as blackmail.
"They pay them below mini-
mum wage, and keep them in
subhuman conditions, and tell
the workers, If you complain, I
won't give you your passport
back.' They turn these people
into slaves,"
Mr. Yishai said.
Some Israeli employers do
treat guest workers well. The
moshav movement has brought
in over 17,500 Thai farmwork-
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ith the issue of Prime
Minister Benjamin Ne-
tanyahu's settlement
policy looming over
them, Israeli and Palestinian of-
ficials met for their first discus-
sions about civilian issues in six
months.
Maj. Gen. Oren Shachor, the
leader of the Israeli delegation,
said the talks were conducted in
a "good atmosphere."
But his Palestinian counter-
part, Jamil Tarifi, targeted the
settlement issue, telling reporters
that the Palestinian Authority
had sent a letter to Netanyahu
stating that it was "impossible to
continue the peace process while
continuing settlements."
The bilateral group, officially
known as the Supreme Civilian
Steering Committee, attempts to
resolve disputes arising from the
implementation of the self-rule
accords.
The Israeli delegation in-
cluded representatives from the
defense establishment and from
the Finance and Foreign min-
istries.
The committee has not met
since Hamas launched a series
of terror attacks against Israel in
February and March.
The Israeli side raised what it
considered Palestinian violations
of the accords, including illegal
construction activities, the unau-
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ers and both groups seem satis-
fied. During a tour of Moshav
Bnei Atarot, one Thai worker
said he would like to come back
to Israel again "to work at the
same farm and for the same
farmer."
Other foreign workers sense
that their ability to work in Is-
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Near the old Tel Aviv bus sta-
tion, a Ghanaian house clean-
er said, "We pray that Israel will
have peace, so it will get rich and
we will have enough work so
that we can buy food. We pray
that the Israelis will see that we
only want to work and will let
us stay here."
The man said he and his wife
work illegally for nearly $7 an
hour. Some of his friends, he
said, even clean house for po-
licemen who've stopped them.
"The policemen pay them for it.
Why not? They know we're only
here to work," he said.
If the guest workers are a
problem for Israel, some argue,
they come under the heading of
"rich people's problems." If so,
their suffering at the hands of
some unscrupulous Israelis will
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thorized entry of Palestinians
into Israel and the Palestinian
Authority's failure to pay hospi-
tal and other fees.
The two sides agreed to reac-
tivate subcommittee discussions
regarding civilian matters
and decided that committee
members would tour border
crossings next week to discuss
further easing the closure of the
territories.
The Israeli side refused to dis-
cuss the issue highest on the
Palestinian list of concerns —
Jewish settlements.
Palestinian officials reacted
angrily to an announcement by
Defense Minister Yitzhak
Mordechai to place 300 mobile
homes in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip to provide additional
space for overcrowded school
buildings in time for the start of
the new school year.
A day later, the head of the
Likud Knesset faction, Michael
Eitan, said new neighborhoods
would be created in the West
Bank and Gaza, adding that
many Jews would soon relocate
there.
The U.S. State Department re-
acted with the announcement
that it was planning to ask Mr.
Netanyahu whether Mr. Eitan's
comments reflected government
policy or were just "public sug-
gestions."