Word: judea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israel, on the other hand, has consistently refused to negotiate with the PLO--which the rabbis concede is the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. On May, 8, 1988, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir insisted that "We will never part from Judea, Samaria and Gaza (the Occupied Teritories.)" This should come as little surprise from a man who, only five weeks earlier, likened Palestinians to "grasshoppers" whose heads will be "smashed against the boulders and walls" when they demonstrate for their right to self-determination...
...Grossman to contribute an article about the nation's 20-year occupation of the West Bank, the territory won from Jordan during the Six-Day War. Grossman spent seven weeks there before writing of the daily lives of the Palestinians and the Jewish settlers, who call the conquered lands Judea and Samaria. His well- turned personal reportage, which in book form became an Israeli best seller, restated an old controversial question: At what political and moral cost does Israel take under its iron wing the lives of some 1.5 million Palestinians, many of whom are landless and jobless refugees from...
...burning tires and even a torched Israeli bus that was set afire by Arab rioters near the West Bank city of Hebron. But the episode in Kafr Qaddum underscored a new, worrisome development: the growing militancy among the 65,000 Jews who live in the land that they call Judea and Samaria but that is better known as the occupied West Bank. Touring Hebron last week, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin denounced the settlers' actions as "destructive." Said Major General Amram Mitzna, regional commander for the West Bank: "This is a job for the army. If there are any people...
...settlers symbolizes a basic national dilemma. For years this small but fervent group -- representing only 2% of the country's total Jewish population -- has exercised an outsize influence on Israeli politics. Even many Israelis who question the settlers' tactics agree with them that the barren hilltops of ancient Judea and Samaria belong to Israel and should be kept forever...
...some people in Israel the issue is primarily religious, a fulfillment of God's gift of Judea and Samaria to the Jews as his chosen people. For the majority of Israelis, however, the motivation for continued possession of the West Bank is fear. Before 1967, Egyptian troops sat 35 miles from Tel Aviv; today Israel is protected by a peace treaty with Egypt and a wide stretch of desert between them. Before 1967, Israel's population centers were within rifle range of Jordanian troops; today 40 miles of desert and a river separate Jordan from most Israelis. Before 1967, much...