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Economically, the Israeli occupation has helped both Israel and the West Bank. Since 1967, Israel has created a complex infrastructure of irrigation systems, electrical grids and road networks in the territory. But the Palestinians nonetheless argue that Israel is making capital improvements only because it intends someday to annex the region. The Palestinians also point out that they pay more in taxes to Israel than they get back in benefits. The West Bank buys 90% of its imports from Israel, but sells only 65% of its exports in return. Nearly half of the territory's 80,000 unskilled workers...
...state that "not a single nation in the world recognizes the Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem." Historically, na tions never acknowledged the owner of Jerusalem. Everyone had a good reason to annex it, attack it, save it, conquer it, bury it. Why can't we stop worrying about who owns the city and be happy with what Jerusalem represents...
...defeat the P.L.O. in the Beirut area and then vanquish the Syrians if they were foolish enough to get involved. The P.L.O. would be routed and, the thinking goes, would shift its attention to Jordan, overthrow King Hussein and turn the country into a Palestinian state. Israel would meanwhile annex the West Bank...
Druckman thus joined forces last week with the firebrand Geula Cohen and her two colleagues in the tiny, radical rightist Tehiya Party. In 1980 Cohen wrote legislation calling for de facto annexation of Arab-dominated East Jerusalem. Late last year she tabled a motion to annex the occupied Golan Heights. She would also like to annex the West Bank, but her main mission at the moment is to block the Sinai withdrawal. Says she: "The people of Israel are nervous. This national trauma will stay in our hearts and minds forever...
...Damascus, Khaled Fahoum, chairman of the Palestine National Council, a sort of parliament-in-exile, concluded: "Begin is getting out of Sinai, under U.S. pressure, so he must somehow compensate. But he cannot formally annex the land. If he does that, he must make 1.3 million Arabs citizens of Israel. And that he is not prepared to do, especially when you compare our birth rate to theirs." Other Arabs argued that, if sufficient numbers of Palestinians could be expelled from the West Bank or intimidated into leaving, the birth rate would be irrelevant. After all, the Arab population...