text: The man serving as the national chief of police in the West Bank is Hazem Atallah, a remarkably fit fifty-six-year-old Jordanian-trained former paratrooper who coordinates closely with Israel's military and clandestine services and calls Israelis "cousins" because, as he puts it, "We are all sons of Abraham." In our talk he admitted that "there is coordination with Israelis," adding, "We are not ashamed. We try to show people, do it in the sunlight because we believe it's good for our people."