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...Israeli count eight Scuds hit Tel Aviv, Haifa and the Ramallah area on Friday, but none released gas. They injured about a dozen people but killed no one. Four elderly Israelis and a three-year-old girl, however, either suffocated inside gas masks that had been improperly adjusted or died of heart attacks. Despite the fatalities, that amounted to a popgun attack in contrast to the kind of assault Israel and the U.S. had feared Saddam would mount...
...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...
...village of Deir Dibwan, northeast of Ramallah, the newer houses are made of rich blond limestone, with lemon trees in the front yards and, on the roofs, miniature Eiffel Towers to brace television antennas. The village has simultaneously the smell of goats and an air of affluence. It is a theme park of Palestinian authenticity, a once-was village sustained by money from America. Deir Dibwan has a population of 8,000. At any given time, some 4,000 are in the U.S. making money...
Another group of city residents who recently visited the West Bank have been lobbying to establish ties with the cities of Ramallah and El-Birehin, which have recently been rocked by violent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians...
...confidence-building measures the Shamir government claims to favor," says Hillel Bardin, 53, a veteran of the American civil rights movement. He was jailed for two weeks last year after trying to arrange a dialogue with Palestinians while on reserve army duty in the West Bank town of Ramallah. "You'd think the authorities would be delighted...