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...withdraw from territories occupied in 1967, Begin came to power last year on a platform proclaiming that Israel's right to the West Bank was "eternal." Many of Begin's countrymen are even more adamant in arguing the Bible-based claim to the area. Last week Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful), a religious nationalist movement led by Hanan Porat that has sponsored many of the West Bank pioneers, demanded that the government confiscate Arab land to provide for new Jewish settlements...
Unrest is on the increase on the Israeli-occupied West Bank, with terrorist incidents leading to arrests and crackdowns. But this, like the diplomatic pressure Israel is facing, only seems to polarize the nation further. At the Wailing Wall last week, the ardently nationalist Gush Emunim held a rally and declared the founding of a new Jewish settlement on the West Bank at Karnei Shomron. The settlement had actually been started in January, but the rally was the Gush Emunim's way of proclaiming that settlement is continuing on the West Bank. Significantly, the Premier's office made...
Hammer, 42, is a founder of Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful), the nationalistic religious organization that has pushed hard for the expansion of the Israeli settlements in captured Arab territory. Hammer acted after receiving complaints from two members of the Israel Broadcasting Authority's board of directors that the screening was untimely, given the negotiations under way with Egypt. But the unprecedented cancellation of a TV show prompted protests of censorship from a coalition of artists, authors, lawyers, Knesset members, journalists and TV technicians. TV newsmen vented their feelings by letting Israeli screens go dark for 45 minutes...
...mobile homes near the archaeological ruins of biblical Shiloh (pronounced Shelow), are certain the Lord is pleased that his people have reestablished a settlement on the site. Almost no one else is. Shiloh is the newest of four illegal settlements in the West Bank created and populated by Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful), a nationalistic religious group that believes in the God-given right of Israelis to inhabit ancient Judea and Samaria. Washington, most Arabs and even many Israelis regard the settlements - and the Begin government's refusal to uproot them - as a major obstacle to peace. Even...
...daily al Hamishmar last week: "If the government does not find a way to stop 'new facts' from being created while the difficult and complicated negotiations are actually in progress, it will not only lose American support but find itself in a confrontation with Washington." Even Gush Emunim is finding it harder to get commitments from Jews willing to live in these isolated, primitive communities. The group can easily turn out 10,000 people for demonstrations in support of settlements in the occupied areas. But finding 30 to 50 families who will form a nucleus...