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T h a t ' s A l l F o l k s 2010 - Page no. 21 |
who had survived the war, the massacre and the emigration which took place following the occupation. The introduction of the American army forces into the Dan Region area slightly impeded the scope of the destruction and stabilized the situation. The population which survived was located in an area bordered by Rishon LeZion and Nes Ziona in the south, and by Herzliya, Ra'anana and Kfar Saba in the north. The Dan Region had turned into a kind of refugee city under the auspices of the American soldiers. Most of the population were senior citizens and adults, most were female. Only a small percentage of youth and children survived in Palestine after the occupation. Most Israeli citizens aged 25 to 45 emigrated with their children and the little cash that they were allowed to take from the State of Palestine when they waived their rights in the country. The sources of employment withered, for both Israelis as well as Palestinians. The Palestinians continued to maintain an army and police force which was much larger than their economic ability as a State could support. During the first year of their rule, it still seemed as though there was some sense of prosperity, due to the looting of the resources of the State of Israel, however after most of this wealth found its way into the pockets of those who had been economically well connected to the Palestinians, these resources dwindled and poverty reigned in the State of Palestine. Alongside phenomenally wealthy people, there were people living on the brink of starvation. The Israeli economy never returned to what it used to be, and the Palestinian economy never rose to the level that it could have reached, had it existed alongside the Israeli economy under conditions of peace. Many Israeli Arabs became wealthy after the occupation and served in high positions of rule in the new government. The Israeli Arabs in fact became a population group which mediated between, but also separated the State and the Palestinian population from the remainder of the Jewish Israeli population. The vacuum in the Israeli democratic rule was filled by the Arab-Israeli public, sometimes in a manner which certainly protected the Israelis, but in many cases, they also secured their own interests while almost openly robbing the Israeli population. In that atmosphere of poverty, of the distribution of allotted food vouchers and the receipt of food from the United Nations and the United States Army, a black market quickly developed, where many Israelis felt very much at home. Within only a few months, in unemployment and poverty stricken areas of the Dan Region, coffeehouses, gyms, new cars and luxury restaurants began to burgeon, and it seemed that Tel-Aviv was slowly returning to its former self. The existence of the American army, which served as an additional buffer between former Israelis and Palestinians, created some foreign currency income for the residents of the region, who supplied the American troops with black market goods, entertainment and various sexual services. The relationship between the American Army and the Palestinian police and army was cold but practical. The Palestinian leaders learned to recognize the limits of their power and did not pull the rope too tautly. Except for several flamboyant acts of punishment (called collective punishments), Marwan Barghouti's people were more cautious about embellishing the oppression of the remainder of the Israeli population. Thus the Dan Region contained a semi-autonomy of the former Israel. A kind of new mini-Hong Kong was quietly created in the Dan Region area, which included a blend of American soldiers, Palestinian soldiers and secret police, night clubs, groups of nouveau riche of Arabs and Jews along with poverty, starvation and crime. In Tel-Aviv of those years one could find any commodity, any pleasure of the flesh, any drug and any money, but also child beggars and murderous gangs of youths. Most of the Israeli youth and young men who survived the war in Palestine were slowly absorbed into the various undergrounds with some of them joining organized crime gangs of one kind or another. The trickle of the educated Arab population, which was linked to the top Palestinian echelons, into the Dan Region, created strange and impossible friendly alliances between Jews and Arabs alongside severe, strong-arm violence in the name of the law. Gangs of Orthodox students committed acts of robbery and sometimes, without their knowledge, were even activated by covert Palestinian agents. The surviving Orthodox population greatly suffered from the decimation of the sources of financing and livelihood that they enjoyed before the war, and some of them subsequently turned to crime, which for the most part was non-violent. Alongside the illegal activity, there was an expanding industry of food and charity corporations which took care of the Orthodox population but also poured over into the secular street. Many soup kitchens and free clinics were established not only in Orthodox neighborhoods but on once-trendy Sheinkin St. in Tel-Aviv and in other places in the Dan Region. An accelerated process of people discovering religion, and becoming Orthodox Jews, then characterized large sections of the Israeli public. The actions of the undergrounds which first developed as ephemeral and local undergrounds, then as large, established undergrounds, inter alia, included the commitment of acts of robbery against Palestinian business institutions and banks in order to finance their activity but also extended to protection against the arbitrariness of the Palestinian police. The establishment of undergrounds led to a murderous response of Palestinian policemen against the Israeli population, causing it to sustain great suffering. The United States President even addressed this matter in one of his speeches and took pains to remind and warn the government of Palestine not to harm innocent people. In fact, beneath the surface, there were blatant acts of rebellion alongside the harsh oppression of the Palestinian government against the Israeli head-rearing and taunting. That's all folks |
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