shock and revulsion. Yet, it was
hard not to sense a hollow ring
-) to it all.
"It's been quite a while since
Israeli hypocrisy has enjoyed
such a resurgence," Ha'aretz
columnist Uzi Benziman wrote
bluntly.
Nevertheless, there has been
some concrete results. In testi-
fying before the Knesset's Inte-
rior Committee, the head of the
border police, Commander Yis-
rael Sadan, candidly confessed
that "It would not be correct to
say that there are only two rot-
ten apples," adding: "It must be
understood that the activities of
the border policemen are very
... frustrating, because they lack
the authority to arrest and in-
terrogate suspects, and they
face constant friction with the
Palestinians who arrive at the
-\ road blocks."
Day in and day out, many of
rj
the policemen spend their long
shifts standing out in the burn-
ing sun or winter rain peering
into cars, checking documents,
waving vehicles through. And
they are constantly dealing with
disappointed, irate and panicky
Palestinians who lack the nec-
essary papers to reach jobs,
meetings and hospitals in Israel
proper.
Through it all, the young po-
licemen know that despite their
grinding, thankless task, thou-
sands of other Palestinians are
illegally entering Israel on foot
through trackless territory.
In addition to guarding sen-
iD sitive border areas, they are
watching Jewish holy places
near Palestinian areas. They
man the Israeli-Palestinian joint
patrols on sensitive roads; and
they are the first to respond to
disturbances provoked by either
side.
For a variety of reasons, in-
cluding economic, most of the
2,500 border policemen serving
at the most sensitive junctures
are 18- to-21 year-old Jewish
conscripts doing compulsory
army service. The older and
more experienced men — such
as the members of Israel's Ara-
bic-speaking Druze minority,
are elsewhere.
Disciplinary problems with
the conscripts is one reason cit-
ed for what sometimes ends up
on tape or film as a costly em-
barrassment to Israel.
At the same time, complaints
of brutality at the hands of the
border police — though perhaps
more pronounced since last Sep-
tember's clashes between Pales-
tinian and Israeli forces — are
neither rare nor new.
Last year, 324 files were
opened against border police-
men by the Justice Ministry's
Department of Investigation of
Police Officers. Fifty such po-
licemen were brought to trial for
criminal or disciplinary offens-
es.

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