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Begin's critics charge that his goverment is engaged in a policy of "creeping annexation." Indeed, Gush Emunim members believe that the government should formally incorporate the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights as integral parts of Israel. Moshe Dayan resigned as Foreign Minister last fall in part because he was convinced that Begin's ultimate goal was to demand full sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza at the end of the five-year interim period. Writing in the Jerusalem Post, former Foreign Minister Abba Eban argued that the settlements "squander the nation's resources...
...does Begin seem at all inclined to put the brakes on the ultranationalist ambitions of the Greater Israel Movement, the Gush Emunim (Bloc of Faithful) or Rabbi Meir Kahane's Jewish Defense League. By political pressure and sometimes by becoming squatters on Arab land, these zealots have pushed their country into an angry standoff with the Palestinians of the West Bank, which Begin refers to as Judea and Samaria, their names in biblical times. Since Begin's government came to power in 1977, both the number of settlements and the number of their inhabitants in the West Bank...
...squatters in Hebron are followers of Miriam's husband, Rabbi Moshe Levinger, a leader of the Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful) movement. Levinger, who lives in Qiryat Arba, spearheads the extremist drive to populate the West Bank with Jewish settlers. He and his followers believe it is the "divine right" of Jews to settle anywhere in the land of biblical Israel...
...deeply divided Cabinet voted down Sharon's proposal, but approved a "compromise" to expand seven existing Israeli settlements by expropriating 1,000 acres of publicly held Arab land (that is, land in which proof of private ownership does not exist). That was not enough for the nationalistic Gush Emunim, which fanned out over the West Bank and set up 35 to 40 squatters' settlements in protest. Israeli troops evicted them and tore down their tents. But the Cabinet's move to expand the seven settlements brought a stinging blast from Egyptian Premier Mustafa Khalil...
...town that had ever been owned by Jews. After the Israeli Supreme Court ordered that a parcel of confiscated land be returned to Arab control, vandals destroyed Arab grapevines on the property. On May 2, Israel's independence day, thousands of supporters of the fanatical Gush Emunim movement marched through Arab villages to proclaim their right to settle wherever .they wished in Judea and Samaria, the ancient biblical names for the West Bank...