Word: gaza
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...Temple Mount, has dealt the notion of 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...
...asks Samir Hassan, a mechanic in an Israeli garage in Jerusalem. Economist Abdel Fattah Abu-Shokor of An-Najah University in Nablus predicts that a total ban on Palestinian labor in Israel would raise unemployment from 20% to 55% in the West Bank and from 25% to 60% in Gaza. Says Abu-Shokor: "The Palestinian economy cannot survive without Israel...
...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 on both sides...
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...
...such ambivalence came from Israel, which rejected the proposals. The Israeli ambassador to the U.N. reiterated his country's contested view that the Geneva Convention rules of occupation do not legally apply to the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He added that Israel has "sole responsibility" for administering those areas and that "this responsibility is not subject to review or intervention by other authorities...