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...marchers, most of whom are Orthodox Jews, belong to Israel's Gush Emunin (Group of the Faithful), who take Jehovah's commandment from the Book of Genesis with fanatic literalness. To them, it means that Jews, as Abraham's descendants, have a God-given birthright to the West Bank of the Jordan. For it was at Bethel that the Lord is said to have commanded Abraham...
...Arabs, were outraged by the march and what it symbolized. In Ramallah, about three miles south of the festive marchers at Bethel, throngs of Arabs from all over the West Bank gathered to mourn the death of a Ramallah man and a boy and show their solidarity against the Gush Emunin marchers and the Israeli occupation. The man, Kalil Issa, 42, was gunned down on the main street of Ramallah by a local councilman suspected of collaborating with the Israeli occupiers. The boy, Jamil Arafat Hamis Jum, 6, had been killed by Israeli soldiers quelling an Arab demonstration against...
P.L.O. Flags. As the mourners carried the two coffins through the dusty streets to the stone Ramallah mosque, demonstrators sympathetic with the outlawed Palestine Liberation Organization appeared, waving P.L.O. flags and a banner reading NO SETTLEMENT IN PALESTINE. In many other West Bank towns, villagers angered by the Gush Emunin march set up roadblocks of flaming tires and threw rocks at Israeli troops. In Nablus, Israeli soldiers opened fire on rioters, killing one Palestinian and wounding nine others...
Though anti-Israeli demonstrations by West Bank Arabs had been increasing since February, the march clearly provoked last week's riots. Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin called Gush Emunin's action a challenge to government authority and a needless affront to Arab sensitivities. Still, the government has been ambivalent about the extremist group's wish to settle on West Bank soil. It has been unable-or unwilling-to prevent the zealots from stealthily moving tents and equipment into the occupied territories and staking out three sites that are now existing communities. While condemning these illegal settlements, the government...
...plain, with the Sinai mountains to the east and, across the Gulf of Suez, Egypt's Red Sea hills barely visible to the west. The town is just 30 miles south of the spot where, according to local tradition, Moses struck the rock and made water gush forth. Instead of striking a rock, Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Ahmed Ezzedin Hilal turned a valve and a jet of black crude spurted across the sand. "God be praised," Hilal said. "I cannot express in words the happiness I feel...