Word: nablus
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...mixed. A few Arab leaders praised Hussein, but since West Bankers generally have little more use for the King than for their Israeli rulers, the principal reaction was indifference. "We have heard words for so long that we don't care any more," said an auto dealer in Nablus. Some were openly cynical about the timing of Hussein's proposals. For one thing, it appeared that the King was trying to outmaneuver the fedayeen's Palestine Liberation Organization, which is on the verge of creating a Palestinian government-in-exile. For another, Hussein's speech came...
...week's end, 96 tired, hungry guerrillas had given themselves up to Israeli patrols. Blindfolded and carted off in buses, one of which had a VISIT ISRAEL poster on its side, the fedayeen were confined in Nablus. Their status was uncertain, since they had committed no hostile acts in Israel. Still, they were the fortunate few. Back in Jordan, tough Bedouin legionnaires were killing or capturing nearly 2,500 of their comrades as King Hussein sought to end, once and for all, the fedayeen threat to his throne. One guerrilla who made it to the Israeli side said angrily...
Inside the occupied territories, Arab shopkeepers in the town of Nablus closed their stores in symbolic mourning of the 21st anniversary of Israel's founding.-But the fedayeen guerrillas have failed notably to stir the populace to more drastic forms of resistance. In the Gaza Strip, a series of eight grenades exploded in crowded marketplaces, injuring 36 Arabs-evidently terrorist punishment for collaboration with the Israelis...
...same time there is unemployment. Mayor Kan'an emphasizes this. He admits that there is always a job shortage in Nablus. But previously a man would travel to Amman, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia to find employment, often sending money to his family which remained on the West Bank. Now the frontiers are closed. Naturally the Arabs hold the Jews responsible for this economic hardship...
Mayor Kan'an emphasizes towards the end of our conversation that he feels no personal hatred towards the Jews of Israel. Another inhabitant of Nablus, a prominent businessman, assures me that the Jordanians had always been brought up to hate the Jews. As a result of the war, he finds a general change of opinion about Israel and the Israelis among the people of Nablus. "We knew nothing about Israel before and know everything now," he says. He himself has been to Tel Aviv, Yaffo, Natanya and Haifa and finds the cities "nice." He calls Israel a really European country...