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out of Israel and their source of income.
A few Palestinians, like 45-year-old
Mussa, break the closure to go to
work. Mussa leaves .his West Bank
home at 5 a.m. to begin the perilous
two-hour journey. A couple of dozen
others from his city who work for
the same Israeli construction compa-
ny make the trek with him, he says.
Taking a circuitous, half-hour
route through muddy orchards to
cross the Green Line out of sight of
soldiers and border police on the bar-
ricades, they arrive at a gas station,
where the construction company has
vans waiting to pick them up and
take them to the job.
The gas station is a relatively safe
spot, Mussa says; soldiers and police
fire tear gas and rubber bullets at
Palestinian laborers who approach
another, nearby appointed place.
"Only those with courage go,"
Mussa said. "I have no choice — I
have six children and debts to pay."
Mussa, who has been doing con-
struction work in Israel for some 20
years, says he has no problem with
his employers these days, only with
soldiers and police trying to track
him down. But other Palestinian
laborers report that relations have
grown chilly with Israeli employers
and customers since Abu Ulbah
drove into the crowd of hitchhikers.
Kareem, a villager in the West Bank
who works as a cook at a Tel Aviv
restaurant/bar, says that on the day of
the bus attack, "People began looking
at me differently. Even people I knew,
people I work with every day, started
saying how you can't trust Arabs. I
heard all sorts of things."
His employer told him last week
that they need to have a talk, and
Kareem, 33, who's been working in
Israeli restaurants for 15 years, fears
that he and another Palestinian
worker at the restaurant are going to
be fired and replaced with Thais or
other foreigners.
All of the Arab laborers inter-
viewed say they were distressed by
the bus attack. Taher says Yasser
Arafat "should have condemned the
attack clearly, without any double-
talk."
But at the same time he equates
Israel's assassinations of intifada lead-
ers with the bus attack, and blames
Israel for preventing him from earn-
ing a living. "Because one stupid,
crazy man killed innocent people,
why do I and everybody else have to
pay for it?" he demands. "This is
going to give Palestinians the feeling
that they have nothing to lose."

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Murray Goldenberg