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...struggle was not against the Palestinians but the P.L.O., and that a "crucial struggle" was under way over "the very possibility of coexistence between Jews and Palestinian Arabs." Until now, Israel has maintained that the 1976 West Bank elections, in which several pro-P.L.O. mayoral candidates, including Shaka'a and Khalaf, scored victories, were "free elections in the fullest sense." Last week, however, Milson hastily rewrote the official history, declaring that the 1976 elections had been undemocratic and influenced by P.L.O. intimidation...
...controversy broke over a report published in the Washington Star. The newspaper charged that within days of the car bombings that critically injured Nablus Mayor Bassam Shaka'a and Ramallah Mayor Karim Khalaf (a third mayor, El-Bireh's Ibrahim Tawil, escaped unscathed), Shin Bet, as the security service is known, turned up evidence that linked six members of the ultranationalist Gush Emunim settler movement to the attacks...
...anger at the bomb attacks last month that maimed the West Bank Arab mayors of Nablus and Ramallah. Argues Hikmat al-Masri, board chairman of Najah University in Nablus: "Under international law we should be protected by the Israelis. But they did not come to [Nablus Mayor] Bassam Shaka'a and ask him about the incident." Adds Rashad al-Shawwa, the mayor of Gaza: "We are against terror, but I am afraid that in the state of frustrations of the Palestinians, violence must be used...
...Cairo to Baghdad, governments attacked Israel for its domination of the Palestinians. And within the West Bank, the local population reacted with rage. Strikes were called, but were quickly broken by Israeli soldiers, who ordered shopkeepers not to close, and in some cases broke open locked doors. When Mayor Shaka'a was moved to a hospital in Jordan, crowds of Palestinians cheered him and threw flowers on the ambulance in a show of emotion that combined sympathy with protest...
...affairs and defense committee they might have been Jews and they might have been Arabs. It is a fact that Arabs kill Arabs in this country. But I do not exclude other possibilities. I say whoever did it perpetrated a horrible crime. And I do not say that Mr. Shaka'a [mayor of Nablus] is a friend of Israel. He is not. But he is a human being. And nobody is entitled to try to kill him. It is a horrible tragedy. But how can I say there is a Jewish underground if I do not have proof...