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...withdrawal should be as ugly as possible," says Menachem Digli, a former Israeli intelligence colonel who runs a resort south of Yamit. "It should leave a deep scar in the Israeli national memory." His reasoning: a fight would prevent future governments from making similar agreements about giving up the Golan Heights or the West Bank...
Currier House Music Society--Jeanne Golan, plano; music of Mozart, Schumann and Prokofieff; Currier House...
Compared with the AWACS deal, what one Israeli wanted and got last week from the U.S. was a snap: 120 alligators. Alligators? Well, their relatives the crocodiles flourish elsewhere in the Middle East, but not in Israel. Guy Ben-Moshe, who is developing a tourist attraction near the southern Golan Heights, offered to pay up to $1,000 per alligator to further his own resettlement scheme. Joel Smith, who runs an alligator farm near Gainesville, Fla., packed 120 of the reptiles, from 1 ft. to 10 ft. long, into burlap-lined wooden crates and sent them...
...Sharon who spelled out the final schedule for the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai desert next April. A fortnight earlier he had issued new guidelines for Israeli forces serving in the occupied territories. Henceforth, they should avoid entering Arab schools in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights; roadblock checks should be as civil as possible; and efforts should be made not to treat large segments of the Arab population as terrorist sympathizers. The orders amounted to an admission that the dour, ironfisted occupation policy of the previous 16 months, during which demonstrating Arab youngsters were occasionally fired upon...
...ultimate sovereignty could follow further negotiations, but Begin's own position is clear. Visiting a West Bank settlement on Independence Day, he vowed that "as long as I serve the nation as Prime Minister, we will not leave any part of Judea, Samaria, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights...