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VIRGINIA IS FOR MATZOH LOVERS • Glatt Kosher at the Cavalier Hotel the Aristocrat of Virginia Beach Day Camp + Low Cost Air Fare + Olympic-Sized Pool and Fitness Center 4 Inspiring Shiurim + Fishing Cruises + Golf & Tennis + Narrated Cruises 4* Complimentary Bicycles 4 Lovely 70° weather on the boardwalk 4. Israeli Folkdancing *Free bus transportation from New York with registration by March 1st IN NY STATE 114 718-998-4477 "41.-VINUS s "4 HOLIDAYS VACATIONS C O R P * Certain restrictions apply OUT OF NY STATE 1-800-464-VIMS Next time you feed your face.. . think about your heart. 4 V American Heart Association 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 Family Hanukkah Concert and Candlelighting