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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.