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...military power in the Middle East, and is likely to remain so. Now that Egypt has been neutralized by the Camp David accords, Syria, Jordan and the P.L.O. do not add up to a credible military threat to Israel. Beyond that, any new state on the West Bank and Gaza would have to recognize Israel's right to exist, as many responsible Palestinians are prepared to do. Moreover, in return for self-determination, the Palestinians would have to accept demilitarization for the foreseeable future. To maintain internal security, they would need a police force equipped with small arms...
While the hard-lining ultranationalists of Gush Emunim have attracted worldwide attention with their zealous demands for unlimited Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, theirs is far from the prevailing Israeli opinion. Alongside the mass demonstrations of Peace Now, a dovish popular movement, prominent politicians and scholars are starting to demand that the Begin government take a more flexible attitude toward the Palestinians...
...settlement policy is clearly the most troubling issue for Jewish Americans. Though there is a general consensus that Jews should have the legal right to settle in any part of the West Bank and Gaza, the timing and seemingly punitive nature of the Cabinet's latest moves have aroused sharp criticism. Fumes Irwin Goldenberg, president of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation-Council: "I think it's ridiculous what Begin's doing." Theodore Mann, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, offers a slightly more reserved assessment: "A good many American Jews are offended...
...tell the Israelis they don't realize how much we hate them, not because they are Jews but because of what they have done to us." So says Rashad al-Shawwa, 70, a moderate Palestinian by any measure, who has been mayor of Gaza since 1975. Because of his political adroitness, he has won the admiration of Israelis as well as Egyptians, Jordanians and P.L.O. moderates. Unlike some of the mayors on the West Bank, Shawwa has not condemned Sadat's peace initiative. "I don't think Sadat has sold out the Palestinians," he says...
...political verse, whose cadences reflect the long tradition of oral history and the loneliness of the desert. "Before the bullet there was the poem," says Beseisso, 50. "In the days of the tribes, it was not enough to have a leader. They had to have a poet." Born in Gaza, he published his first collection of poems, The Battle, as a student at the American University in Cairo in 1952. Egyptian authorities pronounced it subversive, and copies were hidden in girls' lockers at the university to avoid detection by police. Beseisso himself spent seven years in various Arab jails...