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...doing so. French immigration to Israel climbed to 2,083 last year from 1,366 in 1999, according to the Jewish Agency, the Israeli body that handles immigration; it could total 3,000 by the end of this year. The Israeli government is receptive: in July, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon set off a diplomatic flap when he called on French Jews to "move to Israel as early as possible," and later welcomed 200 new French immigrants at Ben-Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv to "the only place where you can be safe." Most who make the move blame rising anti...
...residents of 20 Palestinian villages are preparing to file suit over Israel's construction of the 720-km security barrier going up along the edge of the West Bank as part of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "separation plan." But their target is not Israel. The suit charges that officials in Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority (P.A.) have profited by importing cement using dubious import licenses and selling it to Israeli contractors building the wall. Try to imagine officials in the Kennedy Administration selling cement to East Berlin construction firms back in 1961 and you'll get an idea...
...Ariel Sharon's belief that the Jews of France belong in Israel and ought to get there as soon as possible lest they fall victim to anti-Semitism gone wild has opened a major diplomatic row between France and Israel. But it's also a signal of deeper tensions on the question whether it is the "manifest destiny" of the almost two-thirds of the world's Jewish population who live outside of Israel to emigrate to that country to help maintain a Jewish majority...
...live elsewhere is driven not so much by pure ideology as it is by the demographic concerns of the Israeli leadership. Based on the territory currently under its control, Arabs will eclipse Jews as the majority inside Israel in the next ten to twenty years. Demographic concerns have prompted Ariel Sharon, since he first took office, to repeatedly stress his desire to bring 1 million Jews to Israel in the next ten years. But these days, of course, they're proving difficult to find...
Looking For Allies ISRAEL Two of the Middle East's oldest enemies, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, found a rare bit of common ground last week. It came when Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz decided not to indict Sharon and his son Gilad, despite prosecutors' recommendation that the Prime Minister should stand trial for allegedly accepting bribes from a real estate tycoon. That ruling opened the way for Sharon to expand his minority coalition to include, at least potentially, the dovish Labor Party. Sharon wants Labor onboard to help push his plan for a withdrawal...