Word: ariv
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...Cohen asserted. "I'm for the freedom of Israel." But few expect the South African solution -- stopping the disorders by starving them of media attention -- to work in Israel. The often contentious Israeli press is unlikely to tolerate continued censorship. Ido Dissentchik, editor of the conservative daily newspaper Ma'ariv, called the shutdown of the territories a "hysterical step" by desperate officials trying to hide their own actions. Whatever the consequences for the Jewish state's fragile image, said Dissentchik, "Israeli authorities must live with this problem called democracy...
...seems probable. Despite the waves of foreign criticism over the country's harsh methods of handling the unrest, the domestic political benefits seem more likely to fall to the hard- lining Likud than the more moderate Labor Party. A poll published last week by the Tel Aviv daily Ma'ariv indicated that 64% of the sample favored either the current policy or an even more stringent one and only 19% favored withdrawal from the territories...
...more than a hundred wounded. Since the violence started on Dec. 8, hundreds have been arrested and detained. Denounced by the U.S. and other allies as excessive, the military crackdown has prompted soul searching at home as well as bitterness against outside criticism. Editorialized the daily newspaper Ma'ariv: "Israeli society is not meant to withstand bloodshed of this kind as the price of our presence in the territories...
...about the occupied West Bank, how best to achieve an Arab-Israeli peace. Any new government, whether cobbled together by Labor or by Likud, promises to be a rickety, splintered structure that could collapse at any moment. "A divided nation remains divided," editorialized the Jerusalem Post. Said Ma'ariv, a Tel Aviv daily: "The greatest disappointment was that neither of the two major political blocs will be able to put together a lasting government...
...Although Peres has hinted in the past that he might be willing to give up some West Bank land in exchange for peace, he has avoided directly addressing the question in the current campaign. Israelis are almost evenly divided on the subject. A poll published last month in Ma'ariv, a Tel Aviv newspaper, showed that while 43% backed a peace agreement in which Jordan conceded some West Bank territory, 41% were opposed to giving up any land whatsoever. "Those who call themselves Palestinian Arabs should be grateful that we permit them to live in our homeland," says a West...