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...introducing the no-confidence motion, Opposition Leader Peres was also trying to capitalize on growing discontent with Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's brutal repression of Palestinians on the occupied West Bank. As he told a Labor Party meeting in Tel Aviv last week: "When I was Minister of Defense [1974-77], I made sure that Israeli soldiers in the West Bank kept the safety catches of their weapons on." To woo Peretz and Linn, Peres offered them safe Labor seats in the next election. He also hoped to benefit from the fact that the three-member ultranationalist Tehiya Party...
...months ago TIME commissioned the PORI Institute, a highly respected Tel Aviv public opinion research organization, to conduct a poll in the West Bank. PORI is directed by its founder Rafael Gill, 51, a sociologist with an M.A. from New York City's New School for Social Research. Since 1966 PORI has been surveying opinion on topics of current interest; its polls are regularly published by the independent newspaper Ha'aretz...
...road between the Sinai and Tel Aviv, an Arab youth leading a donkey raised his fist and shouted: "In fire and blood, we shall free my Palestine." In the town of Yamit, Israeli settlers burned furniture and other belongings in a bonfire and cursed the Israeli government that was forcing them to leave their homes in the Sinai. On the West Bank, shaken by a month of violence, Arab youths continued to stone soldiers in ugly skirmishes protesting the Israeli occupation. On the Golan Heights, there was rifle fire as soldiers wounded four Druze Arabs who were demonstrating against...
...Danzig 1939" toured the United States before coming to Harvard and will head to Germany and Tel Aviv...
...profound good will that was all the more meaningful in view of Israel's troublesome and deepening isolation in the world. From the moment Mitterrand's official DC-8 jet flew into Israeli airspace, where it was met and escorted to Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv by four Israeli-made Kfir-C2 jet fighters, the occasion was electric with excitement and symbolism...