Picking one home over another

[Herschel]

When Ahmed Jabarin was 12, his family's ancestral farm and grazing lands were absorbed into the young State of Israel.

For more than five decades, Jabarin and tens of thousands of other ethnic Arabs in Umm al-Fahm and nearby towns have lived an uncomfortable dichotomy: citizens of Israel, but brothers, sisters and sympathizers of the Palestinians whom Israel fights.

As Israel built its West Bank security fence here about a year ago, it planned a route to separate Jabarin's family from Israel, leaving them and their land to the prospect of future rule by a Palestinian state.

Jabarin said no.

"We fought them to be inside of the fence, and they moved it so we are still in Israel," he explained, pointing out a line of razor wire at the southern edge of his pastures, where the fence runs. "We have many links to Israel," said Jabarin, now 67. "What have we to do with the Palestinian Authority?"

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-woisra073698902mar07,0,3279230.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines

Amusing. The poor people were forced into young Israel, and sympathize with the Palestinians, yet wail they be on Israel's side of the peace fence! Oh, my.

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