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Striving
Us And Them
SARAH BAKER KEUSCH
SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
Be One:
A Jewish Community
That Includes All Jews
Keynote Presenter:
Rabbi Eliezer M. Goldstock, Ph.D.
National Director, "Heart to Heart": American
Jewish Society for Distinguished Children
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1996
9:00 A.M. - 12:15 P.M.
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The restaurant stood on top of a
hill in the West Bank village of
Belt Jala. Bethlehem's church
steeples rose to the south and He-
brew University's campus in
Jerusalem stretched to the north.
The purple and gray Judean Hills
bridged the two communities and
served as a backdrop to my hus-
band Avram's base, where the Is-
rael Defense Forces stationed him
for reserve duty.
I snapped a photograph, cap-
turing it all in one frame, and
thought, "Such a small area to
encompass such a great amount
of fear and anger."
A Palestinian flag waved over
the military camp, blowing to-
ward the Israeli flag that stood
at the opposite end of the build-
ing's roof. "One of the guard's
posts is under the Palestinian
flag," Avram informed me. The
irony of seeing a man in an Is-
raeli uniform positioned next to
a pole that raised the red, white
and green stripes of the Pales-
tinian flag filled me with a sur-
real feeling.
"Shalom," said an Arab getting
out of his car. I was too surprised
to answer. My husband, with a
gun slung over his shoulder,
replied, "Ooh'vracha" Hebrew for
blessings.
Avram suggested we go inside
for a bite to eat. "Avram," I re-
minded him, "you're in uniform."
I later relayed this story to sev-
eral Israeli friends who assumed
I'd refused his invitation out of
fear. These Israelis couldn't be-
lieve I'd driven him to his West
Bank base.
My husband, who would rather
be drinking coffee with Arabs than
toting a gun around their neigh-
borhoods, sometimes assumes his
heart is on his sleeve for all to
note. After all, we didn't vote for
Bibi Netanyahu. We went to the
peace demonstrations. But re-
gardless of an individual's actions,
the Israeli-Palestinian situation
reduces the players to us and
them.
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Perhaps the peace process
hasn't brought Palestinians
and Israelis to the same side,
but before the rioting we could
see each other across the bridge.
No one understood this more
than people in the Israeli army.
Drafted 18-year-olds no longer
went into basic training with
terrified hearts. The peace
process greatly reduced the
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Sarah Baker Keusch is an
American-born free-lance
journalist who lives in the
Israeli town of Ramat Gan.