Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sikh Dilemma...
...many Israelis is that some Orthodox Jews want to regulate daily life according to Halakhah, or religious law. Coed swimming would be outlawed, only kosher food would be served, television and radio programs would be banned from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. For former President Yitzhak Navon, 63, the dilemma cuts to the very heart of what Israel should be. "Are we going to live according to the laws of Moses or to the laws of Parliament?" he asks. "And who decides that?" Amos Oz argues that as a Jew, "I am free to decide what I will choose from...
Even those who promote the settlement policy have not offered a satisfactory solution to the real dilemma: how to treat the West Bank's 800,000 Arabs. Shamir favors a form of "limited autonomy," to be negotiated with Jordan, under which the West Bank and Gaza Arabs would have control over taxes and police, for example, but not over such matters as water, security and immigration. Though Peres is less specific, he has promised to suspend the construction of new settlements immediately. He would also turn limited administrative powers over to the Arabs without waiting for Jordan to join...
...many Israelis, the government's policies present Israel with its most serious moral dilemma. Counting the Gaza Strip's 450,000 Arabs, Israel now rules more than 1.4 million people who do not enjoy full rights and have no loyalty to the state. If Israel continues to deny those rights to what amounts to 25% of the people under its control, it will erode its democratic principles. But if Israel accepts them as citizens, the country will become a Jewish-Palestinian state, erasing its heritage as the Jewish homeland. "When you think of this situation in the light of Jewish...
...include a major amnesty plan which gives legal residence status to illegal immigrants who arrived here before 1982. In addition, a national commission will be appointed to study the impact of factors such as Third World poverty and the agriculture industry's dependence on undocumented workers on the immigration dilemma. This was originally part of an alternative bill sponsored by Edward R. Roybal (D-Calif.), designed to examine possible long-term and international solutions...