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...Likud government has been using the massive influx of Soviet Jews to justify a tripling in settlement activity in the occupied territories. Never mind that few of the new arrivals have any desire to live in the West Bank or Golan Heights; never mind that even though Israel is a small country, there's still plenty of undeveloped real estate inside the pre-1967 borders...
...Minister Yitzhak Shamir the full $10 billion in loan guarantees he has requested to help accommodate an expected 1 million Soviet Jewish emigres. More important, Baker implied that the U.S. would not grant the Israelis any loan guarantees unless Jerusalem agreed to freeze settlement in the occupied West Bank, Golan Heights and Gaza Strip...
...showdown is really about the Shamir administration's policy of rapidly and provocatively expanding Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights. This policy directly compromises both the atmosphere of a possible peace conference and the geographic possibility of trading land for peace...
...detains 350 of the Shi'ites sought by Islamic Jihad -- though Israel would probably make him unlock the door if its soldiers are recovered. Damascus has also put in a bid for the release of an unspecified number of Syrian soldiers it claims were detained by Israel in the Golan Heights...
Syria, facing the future without its own longtime sponsor, the Soviet Union, also needs friends in the West and has signed on to the U.S. plan for a regional peace conference. President Hafez Assad has apparently decided to move to negotiations in hopes of reclaiming the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. "He can do that a lot more effectively through diplomacy than terrorism," says a Western official...