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California's foreign-born entrepreneurs include many Palestinians who have taken over grocery stores. Fuad Mogannam, 51, a Christian Palestinian from Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, estimates that nearly half of San Francisco's 1,100 small groceries are run by his compatriots. A number of the stores are in distressed areas that the previous owners were eager to leave. The newcomers are helped by old-timers who co-sign loans and instruct the arrivals in the need for putting in long days. Says Mogannam, who has owned 15 groceries: "The wife, the little kid can work behind...
...Israelis struggled to disengage from southern Lebanon, they were also facing new unrest on the West Bank, where turmoil reached its worst levels in three years. In Ramallah, an Israeli settler was shot to death while shopping in the open-air market. The shooting prompted the Israeli army to impose a curfew on the town and on nearby El Bireh. To protest the death, the Jewish settlers' council decided to establish an illegal settlement on an isolated hilltop northwest of Ramallah. Their bulldozers and tractors were leveling the site when Israeli soldiers arrived. Acting on orders from Defense Minister Yitzhak...
...extricate themselves" from the crowd, but a television clip showed one soldier at the head of a squad approach a group of stone throwers and fire his gun, thereby setting off further clashes. One student was killed, and four were wounded. One Israeli soldier also was injured. In Ramallah the next day, Israeli troops broke up a mob of about 50 Palestinians who were throwing stones at Israeli cars. One student was killed and another wounded...
...cycle began in May 1980, when Arabs ambushed and killed six Jewish settlers in the city of Hebron. One month later, two car bombs went off on the same morning, severing both legs of Mayor Bassam Shaka'a of Nablus and blowing off part of the left foot of Ramallah Mayor Karim Khalaf. Every few months fresh blood was shed: a settler would die after being knifed or hit by a rock, then an Arab would be killed by a booby-trapped grenade hidden among stones. In 1983, three Arabs stabbed a Jewish student to death in Hebron's marketplace...
...Ramallah, just north of Jerusalem, a young Palestinian reflected on the effect the current fighting would have on the generation that has come of age under the Israeli occupation. "We grew up seeing the fedayeen [the Palestinian guerrillas] as hero figures," he said. "That has been shattered now." Others bridled at the fact that the Syrian-backed rebels were led by men who had originally come from the West Bank. Said an East Jerusalem journalist: "The moment they lifted arms against other Palestinians, they lost the right to be called Palestinians...