"gas,

with the latest agreement. "I can't
really make comments unless [the
Palestinians] follow through and
stop the incitement to murder and
stop teaching hate," she said.
Sharfman is a member of Mothers
Against Teaching Children to Kill
and Hate (MATCKH), a local orga-
nization founded recently to protest
a Palestinian Authority-funded chil-
dren's television show that praises
suicide bombers. The group also
works to expose other Palestinian
propaganda directed at children.
"You can't have peace while peo-
ple are teaching to kill," she said.
Although their people stand to
gain substantial increases in territo-
ry, even local Palestinian Americans
are "not popping the champagne,"
said Terry Ahwal, a board member
of the Ramallah Club of Detroit and
former director of the local Arab
American Anti-Discrimination
Committee.
"The reaction of everybody is,
let's wait and see, let's not start cele-
brating because we celebrated four
years ago and nothing has hap-
pened," she said. She noted that 65
percent of Palestinians in the West
Bank and Gaza are currently unem-
ployed and — due to Israeli restric-
tions — are unable to travel freely
within the Palestinian Authority or
to Israel.
"The majority of Palestinians just
want semi-normal life: to be able to
work, build a house, eat in a restau-
rant occasionally," she said. "The
majority of the Palestinian people
don't hate the Jewish community,
but they hate the circumstances that
Israel puts them under." ❑

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