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Sudetenland Tales
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The mayor is on high alert after the recent killings in Sinjil. “What happened there could at any moment happen to us. The ‘settlers’ don’t care whether we are Christian or Muslim. We are under attack because we are Palestinian.”
Affirming what other witnesses had said, he added that Israeli police provided no help. “We call the Israeli guards for help and no one comes. Who will protect us?”
The future of the community is in peril, he warned. “The youth has lost hope. There is no work, no safety, no life, no future and they want to leave.”
Standing on an arid hill above Taybeh, Ramiz Akhoury pointed towards a huge swath of land to the east of the town, which hosts thousands of olive trees, sheep and chicken farms and fields of crops; the lifeblood of the local economy.