Phot o by AP/ Nati Harn i k

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Attacks revive concerns
about radicalization
of Israeli Arabs.

GIL SEDAN

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jerusalem
list as Israel agreed to

release hundreds of
Palestinian security prison-
CrS and just as the High
Court of Justice ruled against some
interrogation methods used by
Israeli security service officials
against Arab suspects, terrorism
struck again.
This time around, however, it
was not Palestinians from the terri-
tories who were involved in three
incidents that took place over the
past few weeks.
The crimes were carried out by

Israeli Arabs.
On Sunday:

Israeli border police check the identification papers of Palestinians at Jerusalem's outdoor Mahane Yehuda market on
Sept. 6, after two car bombings in northern Israel.

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Another Day, Another Pact

In the streets, Israel and the Palestinians react
with little fervor to yet another peace accord.

ERIC SILVER

Israel Correspondent

Jerusalem

T

he only thing Jerusalem's
Jewish and Arab shopping
areas had in common when
news broke Sept. 3 of the
latest Palestinian-Israeli deal, known as
Wye 2, was that no one was dancing
in the streets. In fact, for the most
part these two very different areas of
the city continued living their separate
identities.
While there was relief chat some-
thing at last was about to move on the
Israeli-Palestinian front, it takes more
than Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright playing what she fetchingly
called an American "handmaiden" to
disperse the suspicions of a century.

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1999
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The deal ostensibly calls for more
details on the Wye Agreement, signed
almost one year ago. (See sidebar.)
On Saladin Street, Wahib Tarazi,
an Arab veterinarian, was not very
confident. "At least we're getting
something," he acknowledged. "But
the Palestinian street won't be satis-
fied that they're only freeing 350
prisoners. It's ridiculous that we're
making peace and our prisoners are
still in jail."
What did he make of Barak?
"Netanyahu was better," he retorted.
"He presented the real face of Israel.
They want to take everything, but
they don't want to deal with the
Palestinians as human beings.
"Barak is more pragmatic. We all
know how it's going to end. There'll
be a Palestinian state. So why is he

making it take so much longer than
necessary.
Tarazi was speaking from a book
store where he was looking for an
Arabic-French dictionary. What did
the woman behind the counter, a
Christian Arab with a cross hanging
from her neck, think of the latest
peace agreement? "What peace?"
simpered. "What agreement?"
As if to underline the dissonance,
the two sides of town were operating
on different time zones. For reasons
known only to a handful of ancient
sages, Israel has put the clock back for
the winter while temperatures are still
nearly 90. The Palestinians are still on
summer time.
Seasons apart, Jews and Arabs are
still trying to fathom Israel's tenacious
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resurgence of terror a
targets.
Second, the attacks renewed C011-
cerns about the growing alienation
of some members of Israel's Arab
community, who make up one-fifth
of the population of the Jewish
state.

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