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...arrest left neighbors in Kafr al-Dawar confused and angry. "This is a filthy, corrupt government," declares a local man. "It accuses everyone and is unjust." Abouhalima's family members claim they were warned that if they talk to foreign journalists they will be arrested and will face "serious" consequences...
...gray row of company housing on a dusty back street of the town of Kafr el Dawar in the Nile delta, a man answers the door, yet again. He wears a striped galabia and a look of exhaustion. "I am sorry," he says, "but I cannot talk. I am the father of Mahmud, but I don't know anything about him." Outside the house, a teenage boy says he is Mahmud's brother. Mahmud is not here. He left 14 years ago and never came back...
...village of Kafr Ni'ma lies in the hills west of Ramallah, a high village with an ancient terracing of stones. The people there grow figs, olives, almonds, grapes, plums. On a hill opposite, across the valley, one sees the bright white cubes and rectangles of a Jewish settlement -- a bedroom community for people who work in Jerusalem. The settlements on the West Bank are usually erected on the high ground for defense, and sit upon the landscape like moon stations...
...Jewish settlement of Kedumim is only about a mile away from the Arab hamlet of Kafr Qaddum in the West Bank. Until now the residents of both rural villages lived and let live. Last week the Palestinian turmoil that has engulfed Israel and the occupied territories came even to this remote spot. As 15 or so Palestinian youths manned a rock barricade across the road leading to Kafr Qaddum, a familiar blue Volkswagen van braked to a halt. Inside were two well-known settlers from Kedumim, Shimon Kav, 41, and Yosef Ferber, 48. The Arab youths say they told...
...uprising entered its third month last week, with eleven more Palestinian deaths, more curfews, more burning tires and even a torched Israeli bus that was set afire by Arab rioters near the West Bank city of Hebron. But the episode in Kafr Qaddum underscored a new, worrisome development: the growing militancy among the 65,000 Jews who live in the land that they call Judea and Samaria but that is better known as the occupied West Bank. Touring Hebron last week, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin denounced the settlers' actions as "destructive." Said Major General Amram Mitzna, regional commander...