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When Israelis want to say "I'm no hayseed" or "I wasn't born yesterday," they use the phrase "I wasn't born in Afula." The reference is to a sleepy town of 23,000 that lies south of Lake Tiberias, the biblical Sea of Galilee. With its small stores and workshops and its disposable-diaper factory, Afula is an unlikely setting for an outpouring of political protest. But last week, as a crowd of 5,000 gathered to mourn the death of a local resident named Albert Bukhris, the town became a focal point of anti-Arab feelings aroused...
...killed in the West Bank town of Nablus, where he operated a food kiosk, by the Syria-based Abu Mousa branch of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The group is hostile to Yasser Arafat's main-line P.L.O. Only two days before the shooting, Bukhris had been detained briefly in Afula for taking part in a protest following the murders of two Israeli school teachers, allegedly by three Arab youths. At both this and the demonstration over Bukhris' death, police clashed with the angry followers of Rabbi Meir Kahane as the protesters shouted, "Kill the murderers of Jews!" and "Death...
...myself," says Hassan, 43. "We're not saints, but Israelis also can't be allowed to believe that they're saints who are somehow forced to do evil things." A year ago, Hassan drove down from the hills around Nazareth, heading for Tel Aviv. On the plain near Afula, he watched columns of Israeli tanks moving toward Jenin. At night, he could see the explosions in the camp. Palestinian leaders claimed Israel had massacred as many as 500 civilians there during 12 bloody days of combat. In fact, 54 Palestinians, mostly fighters, were dead, as were 23 Israelis...
...explain: I hated being in Jenin. I was numb with the sadness of turning away dozens of workers every day who wanted to sneak across the closed border only to bring home some food. But my soldiers and I also stopped three terrorists from shooting civilians to death in Afula. I know I saved lives without ever pulling a trigger. It is hard to imagine, but sometimes the Palestinians we refused entry into Israel would stay around for a while, and we would share our dinner with them, and we’d talk about a future where they?...
...Harvard to target the Israeli economy for destruction). We were twenty soldiers in five jeeps spread out north of Jenin when Patrol One caught sight of the terrorist cell—three figures with AK-47s had just crossed the road and were running towards the Israeli city of Afula, ten minutes further north. One and Two were on it too fast for us to get over to help them; they followed the gunmen off the road, and when the figures doubled back to Jenin, they gave pursuit into Palestinian territory. We were still several minutes away when they rolled...