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Trying to win the support of the Palestinians for an eventual compromise agreement, the Israeli government last week announced an important new policy for the occupied territories. The Israeli plan, as advanced by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, is to bring civilian rule to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where 1.3 million Palestinian Arabs have lived under military jurisdiction since the Six-Day War of 1967. The short-term Israeli goal was plain enough: to create the political and social conditions under which a system of limited autonomy could conceivably be successful. The long-range goal was more significant...
...General Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, 53, has long been known as a "hawks'hawk" among Israeli politicians. As Agriculture Minister in the last Begin government, he was the leading advocate of building new Israeli settlements in the occupied territories. But now, as Defense Minister, he is pressing for a transition from military to civilian rule in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Last week Sharon gave TIME'S Jerusalem bureau chief David Aikman an exclusive briefing on the West Bank moves and his views on the Palestinian problem. Excerpts...
...most tangible result of the talks was a decision to formalize and strengthen the strategic alliance of the U.S. and Israel against any Soviet military moves in the Middle East. Top advisers to both Reagan and Begin, including hawkish Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, began to work out the details of the new cooperation after the summit meeting ended. Any agreement will probably include the pre-positioning of medical supplies in Israel for U.S. forces, making any emergency move easier; joint U.S.-Israeli naval exercises; and increased access by Israel to U.S. military intelligence. Also under consideration was the possible...
...harshly condemned by much of the world for its Iraq and Lebanon bombings, is eager to demonstrate that the peace process is alive. Egypt, awaiting the final Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai, scheduled for next April, wants to give Jerusalem no excuses for delaying the turnover. Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, a member of the ministerial committee on autonomy, arrived with suggestions to demilitarize, to some degree, the Israeli administration of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Sharon champions the building of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, but he recognized the need for a conciliatory gesture...
...countrymen refer to him, both admiringly and pejoratively, as "the Bulldozer." He walks like a man about to topple forward under his weight (235 lbs.), each large step shaking the floor as he advances. Both the sobriquet and the gait are appropriate, for Israel's new Defense Minister, Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, 53, whose responsibilities include administration of the Arab territories occupied since 1967, is already exerting more political weight than all his colleagues combined in Prime Minister Menachem Begin's four-week-old Cabinet...