| Show mTi 3X Sir- Piiiju 6 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday Octobur 13 1996 -- jHL A state in waiting Palestine struggles to forge a peacetime identity Marcus Eliason The Associated Press dress conservatively to avoid the disapproval ol tcligious extremists "You see people in the street walking around until midnight ‘Ihe movie house has just reopened" Tamuii the sociology Uy KAMAIIAH WcM Dank — Al a table in the Alhardauni Restaurant lour middle-ag- e men sal hunched in conversalion hy papers and files I hey were Palestinian sociologists they lold a reporter who stopped al their lahle "You are witnessing the founding meeting the Palestinian Association of prolessor remarked aerobics class — another perk of life Ilie woman running the bookstore recounted Ihe endless aggravations of the intefadeh posl-intefad- Before the troubles Israeli salesmen delivered books to her g Once the began she had to go down the mountains to coastal Israel to slock up d curNext caine fews and closures and it became difficult to gel to Israel Then Tony Masri walked into the store and told a similar story of having fled with his family from the Israeli city of Haifa in 1948 Dut despite hard years of moving around Ihe Mideasl as a member of Arafat's l alah guerrilla movement he seemed more upbeat than (he shopkeeper Masri is now a customs official for ihe self-rul- e government What’s stone-throwin- showing'' "Oh trash" he replied cheer I ully "It's superficial change but it's change The most important change is that there are no soldiers and no curfew" said (ihada Kaliali a Palestinian who works for an American aid organization She slopped by a bookstore to pick up stationery and reminisced about the old days "If I came home late my parents would scream al me for being late because they worried" she said “Now they just ask me if 1 enjoyed myself" And she was off to an evening Sociology and Anthropology" l)i Ishaq AI (Julul) said pmudly Outside people filled a park dusk enjoying the Pmlessoi Salim Tamuri chuckled at the street clogged with honking cars "A sign of civilization" he said And yet for Kamallah limes ha e been I teller Decause of Iasi lute-summ- month's gun buttles between Israelis and Palestinians the West Dank city is only now emerging I mm a recurrence of the bad old days ol curfews and confinement within the city limits lor the Palestinians is a long way from The economic boom and extensive foreign aid they Israeli-impose- AP photo A Palestinian boy waits to enter the Palestine mosque in downtown Gaza for Friday prayers expected to accompany the autonomy accord have yet to materialize Throughout the West Dank and (iaza Strip tens of thousands of workers remain cut off from their jobs in Israel and unemployment iuiis to 7(1 percent in the worst-h- it areas Many businesses have moved to neighboring Jordan Most Palestinian Authority with Palestinians with money abroad are still waiting and watching The biggest employer is the 35 (too bureaucrats and 30000 policemen governing 2 million people Dut the trust on which self-rul- e was predicated has been badly damaged by the shootouts between Israeli troops and the Palestinian police who were supposed to lie working together to keep ihe peace in the self-rul- e zones At a broader level there are : grounds for hope Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Prime Minister Denjamin Netanyahu have met in Washington and their officials arc negotiating again Arafat had a warm meet- ing with President Ezcr Wciz-ma- n And there are noticeable changes in Kamallah since the days of the intefadeh the 1987-- 9 uprising hy Palestinians against Israeli occupation of Ihe West Dank and (iaza Strip 3 I ike other cities that have become under the 903 lsracl-PI-- 0 peace accords Kamallah is shedding its Israeli n skin and becoming a Palestinian city Ihe Israeli soldiers are gone replaced by strolling Palestinian 1 full-blow- pnlicemen The Hebrew street signs are lading The cab stand at Manara Square still has an Israeli indi-cai- e sign but there's little else to this was once Israeli-rule- d leiiiloty Ihe mice outlawed Palestinian Hag now flutters over shop lacadcs and gleams on the covers ol children's arithmetic books Al Minara the main square a portrait ot Arafat adorns a wall In short the city of 7()(NNl that was the intellectual wcllspring of lilt intcladeh is beginning to look lift a piece of an independent I’ilcsimc-m-waitin- g Israel hasn't agiLL'd to a Palestinian state but sums in be letting one put down loois I he new order is not all good Apao from serious human rights abuses the new police are prune in a way in mistreat passers-b- y that sometimes reminds them ol tin Israelis I zzal fihazawi a novelist who lues in Kamallah said he had to upbraid a policeman for abusing someone The cop recognized l:mi as a Palestinian Liberation Organization figure with “some kind of nioial authority and he was a little ashamed of himself" (iliaziwi said Ihe good news is the new simes and 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