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Three representatives from the Presbyterian Church USA, which has announced plans to cut ties to firms that support Israeli soldiers and settlers on the West Bank and Gaza, outlined their denomination’s controversial divestment policy before a crowd of 70 students and community members in Emerson Hall last night...
Prime Minister Shimon Peres' national unity government is under pressure, especially from the extreme right, to take a tougher line on Arab terrorism. Kahane, who advocates expulsion of all Arabs from Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, is gaining popularity, as is Tehiya, a small, right-wing party. A poll printed at week's end by the daily newspaper Ma'ariv showed that if elections were held today, Kahane's Kach Party would increase its seats in the Knesset from one to five, while Tehiya would go from five to nine. Kahane, whose anti-Arab views strike...
...people are coming to protect us." When Israelis talk about defending themselves, it is usually against Palestinian suicide bombers. But for some settlers, Sharon has become a more immediate threat to their way of life. Sharon's disengagement plan calls for the evacuation of all Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and four in the West Bank, including Sa-Nur. But in many of the settlements scheduled to be evacuated, residents are preparing to wage last stands of their own. Nowhere else is there greater potential for an Israeli-on-Israeli confrontation than in Sa-Nur. Israeli security forces fear...
...have links to the P.L.O. Hussein sent the list to the State Department, which then showed it to the Israelis, who quickly rejected it. The Israelis complained that only two of the names were from the 1.2 million Palestinian community in Israel and the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Of the seven Palestinians on the list, five are members of the Palestine National Council, the P.L.O.'s de facto parliament. At least two of these are also members of Al Fatah, the largest group within the P.L.O. Even though the three other Palestinians were not directly connected with...
...Gaza disengagement so potentially perilous? Some of the settlers are threatening armed resistance, but "in the end, we don't think many will actually fire upon the Israeli soldiers trying to remove them," says a high-ranking Administration official. A far more serious concern is what the Palestinians will do when the Israelis depart. "The pictures of the evacuation will be hard enough for most Israelis to swallow," says Shai Feldman, an Israeli security expert at Brandeis University. "But if we also see Palestinians looting and destroying the settlements, and dancing on the rooftops-as they did when we left...