Chapter 46, Bedouins
1966 "The Arabs are coming! The Arabs are coming!" Bentzi came rushing to the front lawn yelling his lungs out. "The Arabs are coming! Don't you understand what that means?" We were all sitting on the grass choosing teams for “Hands Up”, a war game we were about to play. "What are you talking about?" Uri asked. "It's not the first of April anymore!" said red head Benjamin. We called him Gingi, like my old friend from H avatzelet. "No, I'm serious," yelled Bentzi, "They're here, the Arabs." His name was Ben Zion, but his mom called him Bentzi, and so did we. "I'm telling you the Arabs are coming. They're in our woods behind our landslide hill." "Next to the Chawalulus?" asked “Rita Chita” with her scared voice. "Oh, relax," said Yoni, "Nobody is going to hurt you even if you beg them to." "What should we do?" asked Rivka. "We should call the polic...