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tween the Muslims and the infi-
dels! The only answer is to
slaughter the Jews, all of them
— do you understand me? Only
then will we have peace." Two sol-
diers suddenly noticed us still
standing in the open and charged
in our direction shouting: "Cur-
few! Curfew! Go on, go home!" At
first the Palestinians stand de-
fiant, then turn and slowly dis-
perse.
As we make for the Jewish
quarter through the now near
empty square, a few Jewish
women are carrying infants in
their arms, as if unfazed by the
recent violence.
"We don't talk to journalists,"
one of them says firmly. "We're
not allowed to without permis-
sion from our offi-
cial spokesmen."
When we final-
ly locate David
Wilder, an official
spokesman, he's
toting a small
gray box in his
hand. "It's a spe-
cial digital cam-
era, so that I can
immediately put
a photo on our
home page on the
Internet," he ex-
plained. (The photo, it later tran-
spires, is of children at play in the
compound, over the caption: "He-
bron after today's incident.")
Mr. Wilder is escorting Jules
Polonetsky, a young New York
State assemblyman, around the
Jewish quarter.
"See those ruins," Mr. Wilder
said, pointing to derelict build-
ings behind the compound. "The
Palestinians are renovating them
and intend to fill them with 600
released prisoners, who will be
living window-to-window with us.
"[Prime Minister Binyamin]
Netanyahu is doing nothing to
stop it," he added. "The hills over
there command the only road we
can use to drive out of Hebron,
and they can snipe at us from up
there, too."
In the heart of the Jewish
compound, mothers sit chatting
while their children are busy in
the playground. Suddenly, a
small litter can snaps shut. We
all jump with fright at the
sound.
"It's perfectly peaceful, but
people are on edge," Mr. Wilder
said. "The man who opened fire
today is a soldier who came from
outside, not a member of our
community. There was chaos
out there after the shooting.
Imagine what could happen if
Arafat's people
are in charge:
Thousands of in-
cited Palestini-
ans could
descend on this
area in minutes,
overwhelming
us. That's why
we oppose the re-
deployment."
A short while
later, Hebron
fills up with
VIPs. Jebril Ra-
joub arrives (at Israel's request)
to "calm Palestinian emotions."
Israeli Defense Minister
Yitzhak Mordechai and Chief of
Staff Amnon Shahak come to
talk to Mayor Natshe and the
Jewish residents.
"What is the lesson of today's
incident?" shrugs 57-year-old
shopkeeper Ahmad Nasser in
response to our question about
the future. "May God have mer-
cy on this city. May God have
pity on Hebron. For the people
here, you see, will not." El
A trash-can lid
suddenly snaps
shut with a crash.
Mothers watching
children play are
jolted with fear.
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but still paralyzed the state last week.
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n editorial cartoon in Yediot
Aharonot , Israel's largest
daily newspaper, said it all:
AAm it Peretz, head of the
Histadrut national labor union,
had risen from the grave, knocked
aside the stone marked "His-
tadrut, R.I.P.," and was flexing his
muscles menacingly.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu stared at
him in shock.
The strike that gripped Israel
last week was the most wide-
spread, paralyzing labor walkout
the country had seen in nearly 20
years. Hospitals, local government
offices, fire departments, ports,
railroads, utilities, telephone
switchboards, television and ra-
dio stations, banks and many oth-
er services were either closed or
operating as shadows of their usu-
al selves. Even the Tel Aviv Stock
Exchange was shut down.
"The government and the em-
ployers thought that the His-
tadrut had no power. This proved
to be a great mistake," said Pro-
fessor Avraham Friedman, a la-
bor relations expert and head of
Hebrew University's Jerusalem
Institute for Israel Studies.
Mr. Netanyahu, Finance Min-
ister Dan Meridor, and industri-
al leaders blasted the Histadrut
for crippling the economy with a
"lawless," "immoral" strike. They
drove home the message that "no-
body knows why the workers are
striking."
In fact, the strike had one over-