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UNSETTLING AGREEMENT from page 40
rounded by land under total Palestinian
control. Morale-boosting visits this week
by Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yitzhak
Mordechai and two high-ranking gener-
als failed to allay their anxiety.
"We're worried," Achdari said,
"because we don't know what will be.
The Palestinians can surprise us. We
don't know what the Palestinian
police will do. Before, everything
from here to Afula was under Israeli
control. Now we have only the road,
but nothing on either side of it.
"If an Arab can throw a stone or
shoot, then run away to his village
and the army. can't pursue him, we
won't have any protection. I don't
want three or four soldiers to escort
me to Afula every time I go to the
supermarket. I don't think the govern-
ment should have to pay for that."
She frets about lending her car to
her 20-year-old daughter, Efrat, so she
can go to a disco in Afula. "It's impor-
tant to me that I can give her the key
without lying awake until she comes
home at four in the morning. When
our army was here, I could sleep.
Now I won't be able to."
The army has proposed stretching •
electronic fences around Ganim and
other vulnerable settlements, digging
security ditches and putting up watch
towers. The settlers don't want them.
"We didn't come here to live in an
army camp," snorted Ofer Ashash,
Ganim's security officer.
"I'm allergic to fences, ditches,
bunkers and towers," added Ervin
Leipnik, 60, a muscular Hungarian-
born Holocaust survivor. "I saw them
in Bergen-Belsen. What do we want?
A concentration camp? Are we going
to peace or to war?"
So far, no one is leaving Ganim,
but the villagers are starting to weigh
alternatives. "We came here for the
quality of life," Dinah Achdari confid-
ed. "I have to think again about my
quality of life. We never thought this
area would be given away. When it
was captured in 1967, we were chil-
dren. We grew up with the idea that
this was part of Israel."
Moving back across the old Green
Line border is not that simple,
though. "I have a mortgage," Achdari
said. "I pay $300 a month. If I run
away, I shall have to pay rent on top
of that. I won't be able to sell my
house. Who will buy it now?"
A Labor member of parliament has
su gg ested that the government offer
compensation to any settlers Nvho
want to leave. Is it an Option? Not
yet, but soon it may be — especially
if the talks on final borders between
Israel and a Palestinian state, which
resumed this month, look as if they're
getting anywhere.
"I will only take compensation if I
see that my family is not safe,"
Achdari said. "I don't want to put my
son on the altar, not for land, not for
anything. But if we are safe, I love this
place and I don't want to leave."
What, then, about living as Israelis
under Palestinian rule? The settlers
dismiss it With contempt. "If I wanted
to live in another country, I could go
to America," said Achdari, whose par-
ents immigrated from Yemen half a
century ago.
"We are Israeli citizens," protested
her husband, Aryeh, a 40-year-old
merchant seaman. "We were born
here. We don't want to be controlled
by another government. Our parents
came from an Arab country to live in
a Jewish state. We don't want to go
back to an Arab country." 7
Long-Range F-15s
Give Israel Depth
Israel has maintained a decisive tech-
nological advantage in the air with the
acquisition of its latest strike aircraft
from the United States, according to
the current issue of the London-based
Jane.;- Defense Weekly.
The journal reports that the Israel
Air Force has now taken delivery of
more than half of the 25 Boeing F-
15I jet fighters it ordered in 1994 and
has already conducted more than
1',200 flights with the aircraft, which
are now stationed at the Tel Nov base
in central Israel.
The multibillion-dollar order,
scheduled to be completed by mid-
1999, gives Israel — for the first time
— an all-weather, long-range, pre-
emptive strike capability, the journal
reported. The acquisition also gives
Israel "the most powerful long-range
aircraft in the region," it said.
Jericho Casino
Is Off-Limits
Israel's attorney general said it is illegal
for Israelis to gamble at the casino in
Palestinian-ruled Jericho. But Elyakim
Rubinstein stopped short of recom-
mending that charges be brought
against Israelis who go to the popular
casino to CitellITIVent the ban on gam-
bling in Israel.