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If Anata was reminiscent of an eighteenth-century preindustrial village, Abed was born into its aristocracy. Both his grandfathers-who were brothers-had at separate points been the mukhtar, village leader, and together they had owned much of the land.
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But as their properties shrunk, confiscated under Israeli rule, so did the mukhtar's significance. By the early 1980s, when it was time for Abed's father to take his turn, he refused to accept the role, saying that it now consisted largely of pointing occupying soldiers to the homes of men they wanted to arrest.
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