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...Rabbi Shlomo Goren, the former chief rabbi of the Israel Defense Forces. To such Jews, the West Bank is not ''occupied'' but ''liberated'' territory. ''When you begin to doubt our moral right to Judea and Samaria,'' says Joseph Ben-Shlomo, a leader of the right-wing settlers' movement Gush Emunim, ''you doubt the very justice of Israel's right to be.'' To further intimidate any doubters, Israel has for the past 21 years established what it calls ''facts on the ground,'' settlements that have changed the face of the West Bank and Gaza. Some 67,000 settlers have moved into...
...preoccupied by the fact that Israel is still besieged from within by frequent acts of random violence. A Jewish settler was killed a few weeks ago when her car was fire bombed on the road to the settlement of Alfei Menashe. In retaliation, settlers belonging to the extremist Gush Emunim movement rampaged through the nearby Arab town of Kalkilya. The West Bank's Bir Zeit University has been closed for four months, following student rioting that left one Arab dead at the hands of Israeli soldiers. Occupation authorities have shut down the school eleven times in the past ten years...
...already pleaded guilty, and two army officers of the West Bank military government are being tried separately. Israelis have been shocked not only to learn that an underground Jewish terrorist movement exists but by the list of those accused of taking part. Most of the suspects belong to Gush Emunim, the nationalistic religious group that has spearheaded the Jewish settlement movement in the occupied West Bank. Some are reserve paratroopers and tank commanders in the armed forces. One is a rabbi. The sight of these men, a few in their early 20s and most of them bearded and wearing skullcaps...
Rabbi Moshe Levinger, the spiritual leader of Gush Emunim, insists that his followers acted only because the government failed to safeguard the West Bank settlements. "The arrested will yet go down in history as dear boys who worked for the state at a time when it did not do enough on their behalf," he said. Explained one of the men on trial: "We were groups of guys
...myth of Israeli unanimity and crafts his vision for Israel in literary form. The series of interviews recorded in this book shows a wide range of Israeli public opinion: the anti-war movement, the anti-Zionists, the Arab nationalists, and Palestinians, the secular Jews, and the ultra-conservative Gush Emunim...