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"Green is for Amal, yellow is for Hezbollah", yells Abraham, left, to Israeli tourists looking through binoculars at the victors' flags festooning Lebanese villages on nearby hills. 

Abraham used to sell coffee, falafel and souvenirs to Israeli soldiers and Lebanese laborers moving between the occupied zone and Israel at Fatma Gate. The gate was known in Israeli double-speak as "The Good Fence"...between good, cooperative and peaceful neighbors. When the gate was padlocked in May, ending two decades of Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon, Abraham planted a mobile shop near a convenient look-out to cater to a small but steady flow of curious tourists.