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...capitalist, white but not colonial, skilled but not rich, the Israelis were able to find friends-and diamonds -in the Congo (Brazzaville), Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Ivory Coast. Israel even gets stones from Arabs; Syrian and Lebanese diamond buyers in Africa secretly sell to Tel Aviv...
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...
...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...
Another Rogers caller was Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin, who was particularly worried that a limited ceasefire might give Egypt an opportunity to move Russian missiles up to the Suez Canal. In Tel Aviv, Foreign Minister Abba Eban expressed similar concern, arguing that a temporary cease-fire "would be a certificate for the resumption of hostilities on a fixed date. It would be only a phase of war, whereas a permanent cease-fire would be a transition for peace...
...something so I won't have to do the column. When it's over, I feel like I'd been through childbirth. But then I hate every other kind of work, too." Divorced, she lives with her 14-year-old daughter in a Tel Aviv flat, and for relaxation likes to go to bed with a book, bonbons and apples. "I'm at my best in a reclining position," she explains...