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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...descendants of Abraham remembered. In 1948 the Jews of Palestine seized control of part of the ancient land of their forefathers and established the state of Israel. In 1967, as a result of the Six-Day War, Israel occupied those portions of the ancient regions of Judea and Samaria that lie in the West Bank of the Jordan River, territory that had been ruled by Jordan. Though the future status of the occupied area remained unresolved, the Israelis proceeded in the next 15 years to build 103 relatively modest Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Now, in direct defiance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Israel's Great Land Rush | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...called on Israel to halt its expansion of settlements in the occupied territories, hoping that such a step would bring Jordan to the bargaining table. Prime Minister Menachem Begin angrily rejected the Reagan plan, saying that the West Bank, which he refers to by the biblical names of Judea and Samaria, belongs to the Jewish people forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Israel's Great Land Rush | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...resolve. "No one will set for us the borders of Eretz Yisrael," he shouted in the Knesset after President Reagan proposed in September that the West Bank should in the future be linked to Jordan. Using the biblical names for the occupied territory, as he always does, Begin thundered: "Judea and Samaria belong to the Jewish people for all generations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four Who Also Shaped Events: Paying a High Price for Questionable Gains | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...Eliezer Perelman, would change all that. He started by changing his name to Ben-Yehuda, meaning Son of Judea, and at 23 he sailed with his new wife Dvorah to the Ottoman Empire's province of Palestine. Hebrew today is the mother tongue of 3 million Israelis, but when Ben-Yehuda landed, there were fewer than 25,000 Jews in Palestine, and most of them spoke Arabic, Yiddish or the Spanish-Jewish dialect known as Ladino. Exactly 100 years ago, in August, Dvorah gave birth to a son in Jerusalem. Ben-Yehuda named him Ben-Zion and vowed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lightning Before My Eyes | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

...Israeli settlements on Egyptian soil were a necessary buffer between Gaza and Egypt. He next addressed the issue of a separate agreement with Egypt, to the exclusion of the Palestinians, Jordanians and Syrians. Begin believed that an agreement on the Sinai might come first, with a later accord on "Judea and Samaria." (Begin always referred to the West Bank by the biblical names, I assume to engender the notion that this was the promised land that God himself had given the Jews.) He was not asking for such a procedure now, he said, because it might embarrass Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Faith | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

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