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...most prosperous of the Sinai settlements, became the focus of a furious battle over the withdrawal. Of the Jewish protesters left in the town early last week, only a few were settlers who had actually lived there. A larger contingent, organized by the fanatical Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful) movement, included settlers from the West Bank who had come to Yamit to protest the Sinai withdrawal. A third group was made up of members of Rabbi Meir Kahane's extremist right-wing Kach movement. Kahane's followers, many of them American-born, were threatening suicide if they...
...many of Yamit's white stucco homes and concrete apartment blocks have been deserted by those who have accepted the Israeli withdrawal as inevitable. But not everyone is going quietly. Empty buildings are occupied by squatters who have been brought in by Gush Emunim, the ultranationalist religious movement that has spearheaded the establishment of Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank. The Gush now has about 125 families settled in and around Yamit expressly to prevent the Israeli withdrawal. Just last week 25 families moved into the local motel. In addition, they were joined in Yamit by three militant...
...days of the car bombings that critically injured Nablus Mayor Bassam Shaka'a and Ramallah Mayor Karim Khalaf (a third mayor, El-Bireh's Ibrahim Tawil, escaped unscathed), Shin Bet, as the security service is known, turned up evidence that linked six members of the ultranationalist Gush Emunim settler movement to the attacks...
Somewhat less extreme is the larger Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful), founded after the 1973 war by Rabbi Moshe Levinger, 44. Gush urges a policy of aggressive Jewish settlements in all the occupied Arab lands. In several instances it has used the tactic of illegal squatting until de facto settlement is finally recognized by the Israeli government...
While the hard-lining ultranationalists of Gush Emunim have attracted worldwide attention with their zealous demands for unlimited Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, theirs is far from the prevailing Israeli opinion. Alongside the mass demonstrations of Peace Now, a dovish popular movement, prominent politicians and scholars are starting to demand that the Begin government take a more flexible attitude toward the Palestinians...