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News reports of violence in Israel, though, are not outright lies. The intifada exists. Palestinians do throw stones and Molotov cocktails at Israeli targets, stab Israeli soldiers and civilians, and--increasingly--shoot and kill Israeli settlers travelling in the West Bank and Gaza. The Israeli military does respond with arrests and occasionally with beatings and bullets. Israeli settler groups have recently taken to vigilante acts of vandalism against Palestinians...
There is also the larger question of what is to become of the more than 170 Jewish settlements already in place in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Quite a few of those have been erected or expanded since the Bush Administration launched its peace initiative last March. According to Peace Now, Israel's leading movement for reconciliation with the Arabs, the Shamir government pumped $1.1 billion into settlement expansion in 1991, adding 13,650 new housing units. Two opposition members of the Knesset recently presented documents showing that over the past 18 months, the Housing Ministry, intent on sealing...
Ultimately, reality had to catch up with absurdity. Here was an Israeli government negotiating autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza Strip at peace talks in Washington, while a critical part of the coalition advocated either annexing the occupied territories or expelling the Palestinians en masse. Something had to go, and last week it was the government's extreme right wing. By announcing their intention to leave the ruling coalition this week, the ultranationalists of the Tehiya and Moledet parties virtually ensured the collapse of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's government and set the stage for elections as early...
...Israel's most controversial political and military figure, successfully led his country in the 1967 Six-Day War. In the first full-length biography of Dayan, Slater, who is a reporter for TIME's Jerusalem bureau, contends that Dayan's decision to keep Israel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip led to the hard-line, right-wing policies of the Shamir government...
Palestinians: Want an independent state, in confederation with Jordan, with East Jerusalem as its capital. But coming into the conference, they have dropped their long-standing refusal to accept self-rule over daily affairs in the West Bank and Gaza as a first step. As an immediate sign of good faith, they want a freeze on Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. They have vowed to stick out the talks...