Word: eretz
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...have brought the territory to a flash point? Most of them migrated there to live in the 64 Jewish settlements that have been established in the West Bank since it was captured by Israel in 1967. Many were moved by an idealistic conviction that they were settling in Eretz Israel, the biblical land of the prophets. Others had more contemporary, political motives. In any case, their zealous nationalism has spawned increasingly violent bouts of intercommunal strife between Arabs and Jews. As the reciprocal hostility has mounted, youthful Jewish settlers often roam among the Arab districts, smashing windows and slashing tires...
Both Gush and Kach denied responsibility for last week's attempted assassinations but they did not decry them. Said Kach Spokesman Yossi Dayan: "We warned these mayors that they had to leave Eretz Israel. If they had listened to us, they would be able to walk today...
...support their cause, in part because they think the creation of a Palestinian state would reduce internal political pressure on their own regimes. Begin's government opposes the concept absolutely. One reason is Begin's deeply rooted belief that Jews have a right to settle anywhere in Eretz Yisrael, which includes present-day Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Another is the fear that an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank, dominated by the P.L.O., would present a new threat to Israel's security...
...believe that they must retain a presence in the occupied territories as security against future Arab attacks. Religious Jews, moreover, consider much of this land as their God-ordained birthright. Begin shares the religious Zionist view that occupied territories where Jews lived in biblical times are rightfully part of Eretz Yisrael. In fact, he almost torpedoed the Camp David talks on that issue...
...Israel a group of 200 rabbis and heads of Yeshivas posted proclamations in their synagogues and schools completely opposing Israel's withdrawal from even one inch of the West Bank territory, which they regard as an organic part of biblical Eretz Israel (the Land of Israel). At the same time, however, tens of thousands of "Peace Now" demonstrators crowded downtown Tel Aviv protesting Begin's intransigence on the occupied territories. Said one of the movement's founders, Yossi Ben-Artzi: "This is a historic chance to achieve peace; it comes perhaps once in a generation...