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While only 21% want to keep the sandy wastes of Sinai, 95% favor retaining Jerusalem, 88% the Golan Heights, 61% the port city of Sharm el Sheikh and 47% the West Bank of the Jordan...
...traditions established while the town was under Arab rule. As many as 40,000 Jewish pilgrims a day travel to Hebron to visit the Tomb of the Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), which for 700 years has been an Arab mosque. Jewish tourists literally swarm over the Golan Heights every weekend. On 9,211-ft. Mount Hermon, in what used to be Syria, a group of enterprising kibbutzniks plans to open a ski resort that might just be called the Shalom Slalom...
...occupation has been so great that it has led many Israeli politicians to demand outright the annexation of the conquered lands once and for all. The government, whatever its intent may be, publicly rejects such ideas. "It is not enough for us to look down from the Golan Heights, see our settlements lying safe below, and say that now peace is assured," said Defense Minister Moshe Dayan two weeks ago. "We shall have to look at it also from the point of view of the Syrians, who see our troops 38 miles from Damascus and who do not see that...
...appeared to be in public. High-placed Arabs in both Egypt and Jordan have been leaking reports that the Arabs are indeed willing to negotiate face to face with Israel, to sign a formal peace treaty and even to concede such land as the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. Whatever Hussein brought with him, there was no question of the urgency with which he brought it. The war left Jordan in deep trouble, and Hussein badly needs to find a way out before the trouble turns to disaster...
...have staked out a fishing kibbutz that is the first Jewish settlement in the peninsula since Moses led his people out of Egypt. Another colony of Jews has moved into Etzion, in the Hebron hills of Arab Palestine, and a third has begun farming land at Baniyas, below the Golan Heights. In Jerusalem, rabbinical students have set up housekeeping in three abandoned yeshivot (theological seminaries) within the walls of the Old City, and the government plans an extensive resettlement of Jews throughout the Arab half of the city. Eshkol last week announced that the entire Jewish quarter...