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...worrisome development: the growing militancy among the 65,000 Jews who live in the land that they call Judea and Samaria but that is better known as the occupied West Bank. Touring Hebron last week, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin denounced the settlers' actions as "destructive." Said Major General Amram Mitzna, regional commander for the West Bank: "This is a job for the army. If there are any people who don't think so, I say that taking the law into your own hands is very, very dangerous...
...blanket order to administer indiscriminate beatings, the soldiers in the field and the Palestinians in the hospitals give tangible evidence otherwise. Though some troops are only too eager to inflict pain on an Arab, others recoil from the actual process of breaking limbs and splitting heads. Major General Amram Mitzna, commander of Israel's West Bank forces, acknowledged that his troops are troubled by such duty, and so is he. Said Mitzna: "I don't feel so well when I wake up in the morning...
Attempting to put a better face on the army's mission, Rabin told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that there was no policy of "beating for beating's sake." Force was to be used, he said, only "against those acting violently." But Major General Amram Mitzna, the central front commander, admitted in a press conference that the "soldiers are not behaving as well as we had wished" and that "no more than a few" had been court-martialed for using excess force against the Palestinians. He added, somewhat apologetically, "It is confusing, not the policy and the orders...
That rising tide of anger and frustration is directed primarily at one man: Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, a general and hero of the 1973 October War. Simply put, the soldiers are afraid that he will make the I.D.F. a scapegoat for the Beirut massacre. Brigadier General Amram Mitzna, head of the I.D.F.'s Staff and Command College, announced two weeks ago that he was requesting a leave of absence in protest over the killings. (He has since relented.) Mitzna bluntly told Sharon, "I have lost faith-in-you." More than 100 top Israeli officers, including everyone above the rank...
...Amram M. Decovney, a Brandeis vice-president, said he was not surprised that students did not protest the award because "it was given to an individual, not Playboy...