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WERE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE
Arabs. They
attacked this
shop — not
for the first
time — just
last Friday
morning. I
will be happy
if people from
the Israeli
peace party
come live
here. Other-
wise I don't
see how we
can go on.
The soldiers
don't protect
us, and they
don't allow
us to protect
ourselves."
There's
also a bird's-
eye view of
A Palestinian man reads a paper in front
the situation exemplified by He-
of a closed shop in Hebron.
bron, as presented by Khaled
the Jewish area, 40-year-old Reja Ama-yreh, an erudite, American-
Kafishe, a music and art teacher, educated journalist whose spare
welcomes us into her apartment. office has pictures of Yitzhak Ra-
It overlooks the Cave of the Pa- bin and Malcolm X on the door. In
triarchs. The apartment, reached impeccable English, he gladly
by a flight of narrow, giant stone holds forth on the many faults of
steps looks like a hovel and Mrs. the Oslo agreements and the PA's
Kafishe knows it.
handling of them. The word
"Though my house is modest," "Hamas" never enters the con-
she says somehat apologetically, versation, but Mr. Amayreh is
"we are proud to live here next to clearly a supporter of the Muslim
the Ibrahim Mosque." Jewish set- opposition (which is believed to
tlers have offered Mrs. Kafishe command a majority in Hebron).
and her husband, a science
"People are saying that Hebron
teacher, a "blank check" for their is about to be liberated, but that's
property. "But I will live here till an insult to the language," he
I die," she proclaims, "because we snapped. 'They're beingtold that
will have so many benefits living the Palestinians are getting what
close to God."
they want, when in fact the Is-
Mrs. Kafishe graciously plies raelis will continue to control not
us with fruit and coffee, but the just the roads but our very oxygen
word that dominates the conver- supply."
sation is "hatred."
Within Hebron proper, Pales-
'We can't live with settlers here tinians will have to pass through
because they hate us. Much more road blocks and check points
than we do them," she said. "Last merely to buy food and supplies.
week I saw a settler woman Palestinian cars can't drive into
whose car was stuck in the street the Jewish area of Hebron, and
below. I shouted down to ask if she Israeli cars can't drive out of it into
needed help. She called the sol- downtown Palestinian Hebron.
diers to protect her and told them
'When the redeployment be-
we were throwing stones at her comes official, I will still be con-
through the window."
trolled, vicariously, by Israel," Mr.
The incident merely confirmed Amayreh complained. "The Is-
her belief that nothing will change raelis have shoved all the liabili-
after the redeployment. 'The set- ties onto [Yassir Arafat], and he's
tlers teach their children to kill here to do their dirty work. So why
Arabs by telling them that God deal with the monkey when you
will love them more," she all but can talk directly to the organ
echoes the settlers' belief about grinder?
the ill will of their Palestinian
`The Oslo accords have reduced
neighbors. "But I have taught my the Palestinian question from an
children not to be afraid of them. historic injustice to millions of peo-
It is the settlers who fear us. They ple exiled from their land to a col-
are being paid by their govern- lection of procedural issues," he
ment to stay here."
charged. 'We want a just, historic
Back in the vegetable market, solution, not a set of procedural
72-year-old grocer Mahmoud arrangements."
Hamdoun has a solution. "I don't
Presumably, those thornier
object to living beside Jews, as questions will be tackled in the fi-
long as they're peaceful people," nal-status negotiations — if and
he explains. "I lived alongside when they get off the ground. For
Jews in my native village of el- now, however, the sides haven't
Heymeh, near Ramle, before we worked out even the procedural
came here as refugees in 1948. details for the city. ❑
But these settlers really hate
AP/NASSE R SHIYOU KHI
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