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...spree. Laborites angrily charged that it was a shameless attempt to buy votes for which the country would have to pay later. Some middle-of-the-road opinion was also scandalized. "The Israeli government has suddenly evaporated," commented Columnist Amnon Dankner in Tel Aviv's daily Ha'aretz. "It is hovering over the earth like some pinkish cloud out of which there rains down on us every week Aridor's latest portion of manna." Nonetheless, the manna was fattening the average wage earner's buying power and providing for goods that were previously far too expensive...
...Syrian army before it became a more formidable foe. A third, frequently stated argument for Israeli intervention in Lebanon: it would enable the Israelis, in effect, to partition the country and thus neutralize the Palestinian presence along their northern border. Even the respected independent Tel Aviv daily Ha'aretz gave prominent play to an article by an ultranationalist who argued that the time was opportune for a successful war with Syria...
...decisively defeated. A Jerusalem Post poll released last week showed that the opposition Labor Party would win 63 Knesset seats to 17 for Likud. In the present 120-member Knesset, Labor has 34 seats to Likud's 43. Another poll, this one by the independent newspaper Ha'aretz, suggested the depth of Israeli concern over the autonomy talks and where the nation is heading. According to the survey, 53% of Israelis either "do not believe at all" or "do not believe very much" that the talks will eventually lead to a genuine peace agreement...
That idea was given a forceful public statement last month by Professor Yacob Talmon, a leading historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a staunch Zionist. In a letter to the Tel Aviv daily Ha'aretz, Talmon acidly denounced Begin's autonomy idea as "an archaic concept, a trick to shut the Gentile's mouth." Talmon argued that similarly limited autonomy plans had never worked in the past and charged that the government's territorial and settlement policy not only contributed to the corruption of the Israeli people but also violated "the vital Zionist...
...hateful the Israeli occupation is to West Bankers, could easily have been avoided. Two weeks ago Israeli General Danny Matt, the military administrator of the occupied territories, called Nablus Mayor Bassam Shaka'a, 48, into his office for a chat. Next day the Tel Aviv daily Ha'aretz published a partial account of the purported conversation; according to the newspaper version, Shaka'a implied that he approved of a 1978 bus attack by Palestinian terrorists in which 34 Israelis were killed...