The Palestinian Collaboraters Of Sderot

Not all Palestinian collaborators are executed--some make their way to Israel:

Many of Sderot's residents are trying to sell their houses and move to safer towns beyond the reach of the rockets. But Palestinians such as Samir are moving in, in part because property is cheaper but also because there are others like them here, a community of perhaps 80 collaborators - they prefer to use a Hebrew word that translates as "assistants" - and their close relatives.

Most arrived before the rockets, when Sderot was simply an inexpensive Israeli town close to the Gaza border and convenient for occasional family visits. Those visits are now too dangerous and most of the Palestinians in Sderot now acknowledge they can never go home.

But life in Sderot is not easy for Palestinians--and that is not even taking into account the daily rocket attacks from Gaza:

Some of the Israelis of Sderot, a poor town built on Jewish immigrants from Morocco and the Soviet Union, accept the Palestinians as neighbours and acknowledge their work. Many others, however, have few good words to say about them. "I don't know how to accept them. We're afraid that Sderot will be filled with Palestinians from Gaza," said Sara Peretz, 58. Several Palestinian families have moved into her street. "It's complicated. Their people are also trying to kill us."

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It seems that in Sderot, nothing is easy.

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