Word: governs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Feeding the Poor. Israel's most crucial immediate problem was to feed, find jobs for and govern the Arabs in the occupied territories. The problem was least difficult where people were fewest-in the wastes of Sinai and the heights of Syria. Two-thirds of the inhabitants had trekked from Syria's captured sectors to the safety of Damascus. The city of El Quneitra (pop. 10,000) was a ghost town, its shops shuttered, its deserted streets patrolled by Israelis on house-to-house searches for caches of arms and ammunition. The hills echoed/with explosions as Israeli sappers...
...this fact. This may not seem just or fair. It may smack too much of raw force and various doctrines of "the survival of the fittest" or "the territorial imperative" that have been used to justify force. Yet these basic conditions-identity, tradition, ability to stake out a territory, govern it and win recognition-are the only real criteria for sovereignty...
...important thing is to bring the forms of power in the university into alignment with reality," he emphasized. "This reality is that the faculty and only the faculty can govern...
AFTER the election Mayor Lindsay had a city to govern; but he also had some 20,000 workers on his hands, now a tight and immensely devoted organization. The Mayor had to make a choice. He could let the group disband and work with a moribund Republican party during his administration, hoping that his charisma would draw his campaign workers back on to the 1969 bandwagon. But this would be a gamble against unfavorable odds. In four years time Lindsay would have made the enemies every incumbent makes and tarnished his shiny white armor. His only alternative was to nurse...