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...Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Susanne Washburn, Linda Young REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Hannah Bloch, Barbara Burke, Tresa Chambers, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Kevin Fedarko, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, Peter J. McGullam, M.M. Merwin...
JERUSALEM The Disappointed Peacenik DORIT SEIDEMAN, 40/three children...
...Dorit Seideman's daughter Yael, 7, had been learning about the biblical Pharaoh before the Passover holiday earlier this month. Yael's schoolteacher assigned her to write a letter to Pharaoh. "Dear Pharaoh, please come over for coffee," she wrote. "I'd like to ask you to bomb the Palestinians." Seideman was appalled. "Do you really want to kill them all?" she asked. "No," said Yael, "only the bad ones." Right now Israel's official policy is in line with Yael's letter, and that's disturbing to Seideman, who campaigned for the Peace Now movement until the birth...
These days Seideman's concerns are focused on her own family. Her daughters go to more slumber parties, since the fear of suicide bombers discourages their band from loitering as they once did in crowded malls. After a bombing, Seideman knows she has less than 10 minutes to make sure all her loved ones are safe, before the cell-phone network crashes under the weight of panicked calls. She is worried that her daughters will leave Israel when they're old enough, fleeing the violence. A suicide bomb exploded outside her daughters' youth club last month...
Most Israelis have shifted their political views rightward during the recent violence, and many have concluded that the Palestinians will never make peace with Israel. Seideman still maintains her conviction that a negotiated settlement is the only way to ensure the safety of her children. "We all know the solution is political, not military," she says. But for now it seems to Seideman that the Palestinians--even the liberal ones who built ties with Israelis--keep insisting on concessions without being prepared to compromise themselves. "I'm trying not to feel hatred, and I see that they are so desperate...