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Although expected, local experts inside and outside Harvard said the Iraqi bombardment of Tel Aviv unusually complicates the alliances among the nations united against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein...
When the clandestine leadership of the Palestinian uprising issued a call last week for increased attacks on Jews "using all the means of struggle available," the response was swift. Palestinians stabbed four Israeli bus passengers, one fatally, in Tel Aviv, and three Israelis were wounded when shots were fired at a bus traveling through the West Bank...
...coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians its worst blow since the uprising started three years ago. As tough military measures fail to stop the attacks, more and more Israelis are demanding a ban on the 120,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza who work in Israel. Says Tel Aviv Mayor Shlomo Lahat: "The majority of Israelis don't want to be around Palestinians...
...suffer more than most if he is expelled from Israel. Two years ago, he was stabbed seven times in the back by fellow Palestinians in his village of Deir al-Hatab in the West Bank for ignoring a strike. Now he sells olives from a small shed in Tel Aviv's vegetable market, which employs hundreds of Arabs from Gaza. His wife and seven children live in the nearby Israeli-Arab town of Jaffa, changing apartments every three months to avoid detection. "If I'm sent back, I'll be killed," he says. "I'm scared of the fanatics...
Ardent Zionists hope the latest anti-Arab sentiment will reawaken the blue- collar Jewish work ethic that built Israel. So far, however, few Israelis have been willing to accept low wages cleaning streets and digging ditches. The Dizengoff shopping center in Tel Aviv laid off 30 Palestinian janitors from Gaza two weeks ago, after they repeatedly missed work because of strikes and curfews. Managing director Gidon Kottler admits that he'll have to either raise salaries to attract Jews or use more machines. He says, "Jews are ashamed to do that kind of work during the day when people will...