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Moreover, the longer the Arabs take to begin talking peace, the more conditions Israel is likely to add. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan last week said that Israel should keep the Gaza Strip -and, although the government denied that his words were official, it did not say that they were necessarily wrong. Another area that Israel is getting increasingly attached to is the west bank of the Jordan, where Israeli administrators are finding it easier than they had thought to govern a large Arab population. Not only that, but the fertile west bank would make an attractive place in which...
...Israel and the Arab states, has been made vastly more complex by the war. Tens of thousands of new refu gees have left their homes in Israeli-held portions of Jordan and Syria. About 600,000 old refugees, most of them in the festering, hate-ridden camps of the Gaza Strip, have come under Israeli control. For Israel, it is vital that the refugees be taken out of the camps and resettled where they can lead productive lives. To most Arab leaders, however, the plight of the refugees is such a valuable political weapon against the Israelis that they will...
...Gaza City, when the municipal council convened for the first time since the shooting started, everyone was embarrassed when the mayor read aloud the minutes of the last meeting, at which an outlay of 5,000 Egyptian pounds had been approved for Ahmed Shukairy's Palestinian Liberation Army. The appropriation was quickly canceled...
...army must somehow police them and weed out saboteurs-a task immensely complicated by the fact that perhaps one-third of Egypt's estimated 150,000-man army in the Sinai seems to have melted away into the Arab communities of the peninsula. There are also the restive Gaza refugees, who emerged as a commando army during the fighting and afterward slipped quietly back into their Casbah-like warrens of tinroofed shacks. To maintain order, Israel has had to keep about 80% of its 230,000 army reservists in uniform...
...contrast, Gaza and West Jordan teemed with Arabs, and the conquerors hastily set up military governments headed by Israeli brigadier generals. In the war, the Israelis had surrounded Gaza so quickly that few soldiers or civilians had a chance to escape. General Moshe Goren and his military-government staff first had to disband all enemy units and ferret out potential terrorists, sending the most dangerous ones to the Athlit P.O.W. camp south of Haifa. Then he turned to the task of supplying food and water to the abysmally poor people-mostly jobless Palestinian refugees who had been living...