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Since Begin came to power, the government has legitimized formerly illegal settlements started by Israelis who simply went out to the West Bank. There are even more ambitious plans for the future. Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon is promoting a plan to settle 2 million Jews in the occupied territories. Defense Minister Weizman has drawn up a plan of his own; it calls for the construction of six large urban centers on the West Bank. If carried out, says a longtime observer in Jerusalem, "this plan would be the last straw. In five or ten years, it would gobble...
...Rabbi Moshe Levinger, 42, of Kiryat Arba, a spokesman for the settlers, admits that he always carries a gun. "The Arabs don't want us here," he explains. "They'd kill us all if they could."' Relatively few settlers say they would stay on the West Bank without the Israeli army's protection...
Many thoughtful Israelis, hawks and doves alike, are alarmed by the long-term impact of the continued occupation, on Israel as much as on the West Bank. Says Emmanual Sivan, a professor of Islamic history at Jerusalem's Hebrew University: "For the generation of Israelis in their 20s, the occupation has been the natural order of things; this is certainly bad. They have learned that the Arabs are at the lower end of the ladder, which creates a vision of each other that is not conducive to coexistence. I'm not worried about whether...
...Israel's occupation of the West Bank is an accident-the result of a miscalculation by Jordan's King Hussein. At the start of the Six-Day War, Premier Levi Eshkol urged him not to intervene; when he did so, Israel dislodged his forces from the Old City of Jerusalem and pushed them back across the Jordan River. But what began as a temporary occupation of the West Bank has now evolved into a semipermanent "liberation," as Begin calls it. Does this mean that the Jewish state-a nation born of discrimination and a longing for freedom...
...homeland, no flag and no address." Wrenching as the decision may be, logic suggests that sooner or later Israel will have to give the Palestinians that homeland, that address. Great risks are involved, but there are even greater risks in the alternatives. Gradually expelling the Arabs from the West Bank would be morally unthinkable, and would condemn Israel to a permanent state of hostility with its neighbors. Annexing the West Bank and Gaza, with their 1.1 million Arabs, would turn the Jewish state that Israelis want into the first stage of the binational country that P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat seeks...