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Many Israelis worry about the moral cost of the occupation. "There is a growing divide between religious and secular Israelis," says Amnon Rubinstein, leader of the small Shinui party. "We are already two different societies." Meron Benvenisti, head of the West Bank Data Project, believes "Israel is becoming a binational state with two systems of government, one for Jews, one for Arabs." He adds, "It is a system that partly integrates the things Israel wants to integrate, like the land, water rights and security zones, and excludes what Israel does not want, like the Arabs...
...study, which was prepared by Meron Benvenisti, a city planner and former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, was described by some Palestinian Arabs as the most thorough examination of Israel's land policies in the West Bank. But the official government reaction to the report, which was based largely on public documents, was that it contained nothing really new. Still, there are signs that the Israelis now favor more restraint in the West Bank. In a poll last week, 52% of Israelis questioned said that they opposed the establishment of more settlements there...
...clear, there is nonetheless a wide philosophical gap between their approaches. The battle is not only over who will be the next Prime Minister but over what kind of society Israel will be ten, 20,100 years from now. "It is a struggle for Israel's soul," says Meron Benvenisti, former deputy mayor of Jerusalem. "It is a question of values, of what to do with our power, our land, our people...
...report published in April, former Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Meron Benvenisti concluded that Israel had effectively absorbed the West Bank and that "the whole political discussion, which is based on the premise that things are reversible, is irrelevant." According to Benvenisti, the Israelis have taken over one-fifth of the West Bank for military purposes and are in the process of assuming control of another one-fifth for settlements, farms and grazing. The West Bank is also being integrated into the Israeli economy: 90,000 West Bank Arabs work in Israel or for Israelis in the West Bank. Roads crisscross into...
...West Bank be linked to Jordan in a confederation. There are increasing signs, however, that while the Begin government accepted the principle of autonomy at Camp David, it is in fact aiming for the outright annexation of the West Bank. According to a research project conducted by Meron Benvenisti, a former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, and completed earlier this year, Israel already exercises direct ownership of 27% of the West Bank. But by using an old statute from the days of the Ottoman Empire, it has managed to gain access to as much as 65% of all West Bank land...