Word: aridor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YORAM ARIDOR is a young Tel Aviv lawyer and Knesset member of the Gahal Party who believes that "to accept the Rogers plan is to accept the principle of withdrawal, and to us that means waiving our rights to the Israeli motherland. Judea and Samaria [Jordan's West Bank now occupied by Israel] belong to us. In Sinai we do not have the historical reasons for staying but security requires that we do not withdraw from Sinai. Three times in 20 years we have had to fight there...
...Aridor is ready to offer West Bank Arabs "all the rights of Jewish citizens of Israel." He adds: "We want to sign a peace treaty with Jordan as it is today. I believe the Israeli motherland extends to the East Bank, but we will not go to war to get it. If we cannot get a peace treaty, then it is better to fight on the Jordan River where we are now than back on our old borders a few miles from Tel Aviv...
YEHOSHUA ARIELI, history professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Aridor's mirror image. Arieli is one of the founders of the "Movement for Peace and Security," which was started by teachers, students and center and left-wing Israeli politicians in 1967 to influence opinion on the question of occupied territories. Arieli would prefer to call the hawks "annexationists" and the doves "negotiators." The annexationists, he feels, are "fanatics at worst and Zionist chauvinists at best." Some negotiator proposals for solving the Middle East crisis...