The New York Times · 23 October 1990

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Outside Arabs Barred From Jerusalem

By SABRA CHARTRAND, Special to The New York Times

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JERUSALEM, Oct. 22 — Israeli policemen surrounded Jerusalem with roadblocks today to keep Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip out of the city and away from Israelis who might seek revenge for the slaying of three Jews on Sunday. It was believed to be the first time the whole city of Jerusalem was closed to Palestinians living outside it.

Thousands of paramilitary border policemen in green berets were sent out to deter violence and appeared in groups at every major intersection and along boundaries between mainly Jewish West Jerusalem and Arab East Jerusalem. They startled residents in quiet Jewish neighborhoods where military patrols have not been seen for years.

It was in such a neighborhood that an army woman and two Israeli men were stabbed to death in minutes early Sunday morning. The police arrested a man they said was the assailant, identified as Omar Abu Sirhan, a 19-year-old Muslim fundamentalist from the West Bank who worked as a plasterer. Today, the authorities said Mr.

Abu Sirhan, who has no criminal record, told them he planned the attack on his own last week. They said he was evidently trying to avenge the deaths of 21 Arabs at Al Aksa Mosque two weeks ago and a beating he said he received from Jews. The police said they did not believe he was affiliated with any Palestinian guerrilla group.

Last week the United Nations adopted a resolution condemning Israel for the deaths at Al Aksa, where police opened fire on Palestinians throwing stones at Jewish worshipers.

Linking the international criticism of Israel with the killings Sunday in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said today: “There have been attacks on Jews in Jerusalem more than once, and there have been political attacks on Israel more than once, too. We stood up to them and prevailed, and this time we’ll stand up to them and overcome them as well.”

Deputy Foreign Minister Benyamin Netanyahu called other nations “double-faced and cynical” for not condemning the three Jews’ deaths in the same way.

How this transcription was made

Transcribed from the slide scan by a reader working off magnified crops, not by optical character recognition. The newspaper is printed on the clipping twice — in the running head and in the credit line “Special to The New York Times” — and the day and month are printed in the running head, but the clipping is cut through the top of that line and the year does not survive. The year 1990 is established from the article’s own content: Yitzhak Shamir as Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu as Deputy Foreign Minister, and the Al Aksa Mosque killings of 8 October 1990 described as two weeks past. 23 October 1990 was a Tuesday, which matches the weekday the running head does show.

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