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Trust, already slowly deteriorating,
may have been finished off in riots.

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n less than a week, whatever was
left of the mutual trust between
Israelis and Palestinians appeared
to come tumbling down.
Except for the loss of life, this loss of
trust is among the greatest casualties of
the past week of bloody rioting.
And when a Palestinian police offi-
cer opened fire on his Israeli colleagues
in a joint border patrol last week, one
of the most important symbols of that
trust was also shattered.
The Israeli daily Haaretz reported
that last Friday morning, a few hours
before the deadly riots began, a
Palestinian Authority police officer
shot and killed Israeli border guard
Yossi Tabjeh, 27.
As a result, the joint Palestinian-
Israeli patrols, long seen as a symbol of
Israeli-Palestinian cooperation, no
longer function.
And when senior Israeli and
Palestinian commanders met in the
Gaza Strip on Tuesday to try to work

out a cease-fire agreement, they
reached a certain understanding but
continued to regard each other with
suspicion. Only a few hours after the
two sides shook hands, the
Palestinians accused the Israelis of not
keeping their word and retracted their
promises to end the trouble.

Arab Police Back Out

In Israel proper, Arab policemen serving
in northern Israeli police units surprised
their Jewish partners, saying they could
not confront Arab demonstrators and
preferred to stay in their bases while the
violence was going on.
"We had contingency plans for a situ-
ation in which local residents would
close off major traffic arteries in the
Galilee," said one senior police officer.
"But we did not take into account that
Arab policemen would not dare face vio-
lent Arab demonstrations."
"Fifty years of trust went down the
drain in two days of violence," said Erez
Kreisler, the mayor of the council of the
Misgav region, which borders a number
of Arab villages in northern Israel.

Digging In Deeper

Violence hardens the lines of U.S. Jewish
groups —for and against the peace process.

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he eruption of violence in
Gaza, the West Bank and
Israel that began with last
week's Temple Mount
tour by Likud leader Ariel Sharon
could widen bitter divisions over the
Mideast peace process among
American Jews.
That is the assessment of several
Jewish leaders, who warned that the
worst disorders since the Intifada
could inflame passions and harden
positions on both sides of the bitter
peace process debate.
"We may be on the brink of a new

period of internecine warfare in the
American Jewish community," said
Phil Baum, executive director of the
American Jewish Congress. "Passions
will be ignited by this; each side,
which purports to know the solu-
tion, will become more deeply
entrenched in their views."

Getting The Picture

Major Jewish groups were quick to
express their support for a besieged
Israel. But beneath the show of unity
were deep and emotional divisions
over Israel's peace policies and the
issue that triggered the Palestinian
rioting — the Temple Mount.

