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Their enthusiasm is not shared by Arab laborers. "What choice do I have?" 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...
Curfew again: Nablus returns to its motionless antiworld, its un-Palestine...
...bright June morning, all the locked-up normalities come tumbling into the streets of Nablus -- the fruits and vegetables, the figs and grape leaves and fragrant mint, the baklava with its hovering bees, the butchered goats and lambs and live chicks in cardboard boxes, rectangles of softly agitating yellow fluff. The narrow alleys of the Casbah fill with the smells and bustle of marketing after curfew. Palestinian life in the steep-sided hills of the occupied West Bank makes one of its dreamlike passages back to the state of mind in which, for a moment, it feels normal...
...return the Shin Bet will start by asking something very easy: "We just need the names of your neighbors." By degrees the collaborator is drawn deeper into the web. If he tries to retreat, ^ the Israelis say, "We will expose you as a collaborator." It is widely believed in Nablus that Shin Bet agents have given drugged drinks to Palestinian women, then removed their clothing and taken pictures, threatening to shame them by showing the pictures to their families unless they cooperate. Some corrupt village mukhtars (headmen) have collaborated in exchange for permission to gouge money from their people. That...
...that the uprising has been institutionalized as a self-perpetuating expression of pride and anger. But a growing number of Arab extremists argue that stones are no longer sufficient. "The only way we're going to get rid of the Israelis is with force," says a young activist from Nablus. "We have to make them suffer." So far, Palestinians have succeeded in killing 42 Jews, most of them civilians. The activist says several hundred more will have to die before Israel can be brought to the negotiating table...