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When Orly Simon and her husband Yoav look out from Gilo, their neighborhood on the southern edge of Jerusalem, across a valley they can just make out where Jacqueline Zeidan and her husband Fayez used to live in Beit Jala. The families have much in common. Each has young daughters, two for the Simons, three for the Zeidans, all very cute. Both wives are pregnant. But more than a valley separates them. The Simons are Israelis; the Zeidans are Palestinians. Throughout the intifadeh, Palestinian gunmen from Beit Jala have periodically shot at and shelled Gilo. Israeli forces have retaliated...
Every day Fayez Zeidan, 36, wanders around Bethlehem looking for work. He seldom finds it. Before the intifadeh, which began in September 2000, he was a construction worker in Israel and labored side by side with Israelis. "In those days the mutual confidence was so great," he says. "We used to go to Israeli restaurants and cities and take weekend picnics without being questioned." No longer. Once the intifadeh put a stop to easy transit from the West Bank into Israel, Fayez lost his job. "To be honest with you, we live on charity," he says. His small two-bedroom...
...this was disillusioning to the school's creator, Kansas-born Henry Earl Diffenderfer, 41, now Director of Education for the U.S. Civil Administration on Okinawa. Diffenderfer has toiled so hard to raise funds for the university that he is called Kojeki Ryu Dai Kagu Zeidan (begger for the University of the Ryukyus). Pressured by disenchanted donors (including a U.S. Marine outfit), Diffenderfer drafted an angry letter to University President Genshu Asato. The school's foundation is withholding all funds, said the letter, until "you can honestly assure us that anti-American and pro-Communist personnel of your student...