Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many Israelis disagree. In a poll published last month in the Tel Aviv daily Ha 'aretz, 60% said that the anti-Arab violence was unjustified, though 32% felt it was "totally justified" or had "a certain justification." Says Gerald M. Steinberg, a professor at Jerusalem's Hebrew University: "Self-appointed avengers weaken the state and reduce us to the level of other perpetrators of terror...
...area is ruled by a military government headed by Colonel Freddy Zach. He is responsible for the day-to-day running of the West Bank, from maintaining sewage lines to posting guards around Jewish settlements. His duties include imposing curfews on Arab villages whenever trouble arises, which usually takes the form of rockthrowing at passing
Even those who promote the settlement policy have not offered a satisfactory solution to the real dilemma: how to treat the West Bank's 800,000 Arabs. Shamir favors a form of "limited autonomy," to be negotiated with Jordan, under which the West Bank and Gaza Arabs would have control over taxes and police, for example, but not over such matters as water, security and immigration. Though Peres is less specific, he has promised to suspend the construction of new settlements immediately. He would also turn limited administrative powers over to the Arabs without waiting for Jordan to join...
...question of how Israel deals with its Arab neighbors arises in an| other context: the continuing occcupation of Lebanon, which Israel invaded in June 1982. Some 124,000 troops remain in the southern third of the country, where they face the Syrian army in the Bekaa Valley and try to keep the coastal region free of the P.L.O. The occupation costs $1.2 million a day, but there is a human toll as well. Since the Israeli army withdrew from the Beirut area to Lebanon's Awali River last September, 55 soldiers have been killed and 436 wounded in terrorist attacks...
...West Bank. We would stop building settlements in the densely populated Arab areas. The Likud spent something like $3.5 billion over the past seven years in the West Bank with very modest results, an increase of 15,000 Jewish settlers. That is a tremendous price, so we are going...