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Jews fighting Jews. Jews killing Jews. The idea is anathema in Israel -- yet becoming thinkable to some of the 115,000 settlers who have laid claim to the West Bank land they call Judea and Samaria, an integral part of Eretz Yisrael, the land God gave to the Jews. Although none have yet been asked to relinquish their settlements, many fear the worst is soon to come, and they are determined to resist...
...mother and father felt, had left such a terrible darkness of grief in them, such a residue of adhesive evil, that they feared the communicated memory of it would haunt the child and blight his life. Better he should be a sabra and kibbutznik, raised in the sunshine of Eretz Yisrael...
...P.L.O. dialogue has stripped away an excuse Israel has long hidden behind. The policy of not dealing with the P.L.O. has allowed Israel to avoid entering a negotiation certain to result in its losing pieces of Eretz Yisrael. Branding the P.L.O. as terrorist has been the most convenient and effective way of keeping the occupied territories in Israeli hands. As long as the U.S. did not talk with the P.L.O. either, Israel felt no need to address the fundamental trade-off of territory for peace. Now Israel may find it harder to avoid the issue. In the meantime, some prominent...
...turning words to his advantage." Although he agreed to an Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai, he won not only a peace with Egypt but also a "comparatively free hand for Israel in dealing with the West Bank and Gaza." Concludes Quandt: "For Begin, Sinai had been sacrificed, but Eretz Israel had been...
...election is also a referendum on the legacy of a man who has virtually vanished from public sight: Menachem Begin. Whether proclaiming his dream of Eretz Yisrael, whose biblical boundaries include the West Bank and Gaza Strip, or defending the controversial 1982 war in Lebanon, Begin hewed to a pugnaciously righteous course that evoked passionate reaction from supporter and foe alike, at home and abroad. Without disavowing Begin's policies, Shamir has tried to steer a course that appears more moderate, at least in tone. Peres, who, like Shamir, possesses little of Begin's fiery charisma, opposes much of what...