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...argument that would suggest postponing negotiations until three or four weeks after the Last Day. An election scheduled for November may be among the most critical in Israel's history, but it is unlikely to give any candidate a mandate. ''I am afraid we are going nowhere,'' says Meron Benvenisti, head of the West Bank Data Base Project. ''More of the same. You will be asking the same question ((about the territories)) on our 50th anniversary.'' Paradoxically, Israel's moral territory has contracted as its physical space has expanded. Israelis must consider the dangers of the authoritarian temptation. Israel cannot...
...which studies economic and political trends in the territories, the number of demonstrations averaged about 500 a year between 1977 and 1982, when Israel invaded Lebanon. Since then, the number of protests has ranged from 3,000 a year to 4,400. In terms of Arab unhappiness, says Meron Benvenisti, an outspoken Israeli liberal who runs the project, "I don't see a change from a year ago. We just forget...
...Palestinians, they have drawn world attention to their plight by making martyrs of their sons and burning tires in the streets. Their spasm of violence has no practical objective and is accompanied by no political program. "It's all been lost on them," says Benvenisti. "All they've got is a new myth of the children of the stones...
...Meron Benvenisti, a former deputy mayor of Jerusalem who heads the West Bank Data Base Project, an independent research organization, is no advocate of Palestinian independence. But he believes government officials are ignoring reality when they deny there is widespread support for the Palestinian cause. "They're still trying to define it as the work of a small group of agitators," he says. "They can't admit that it's broadly popular because they will not face that problem." A number of U.S. Jews, profoundly disturbed by the riots and how they were handled, agree. Said Hyman Bookbinder, a longtime...
...Rabin is right, the military and judicial shows of force that brought an uneasy calm to the occupied territories last week will continue to keep the Palestinians in check. If Benvenisti and Bookbinder are right, the Israelis have only bought a little breathing space, and no amount of jail time and fines will keep the West Bank and the Gaza quiet for very long...