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...economy will be one of the most important issues. But we will have other issues: Lebanon, relations with our neighbors, the so-called territories of Samaria and Judea [the West Bank], and Gaza. In all the campaigns in the past we had to face the same issues, except Lebanon...
...think the establishment of some centers of population in the areas of Samaria and Judea has to do with the climate of relations between us. After all, in the Camp David accords we obliged ourselves to negotiate about the political future of these territories. We have never promised not to live there, not to settle there. In this part of the world, in this country, Jews and Arabs will live together forever, and the question is: What will be the political expression of this reality...
...Israeli government reacted with relief to news that the Arafat-Hussein talks had failed. When President Reagan proposed his plan last September, Prime Minister Begin reminded the Knesset that the West Bank, which he refers to as Judea and Samaria, "will be for the Jewish people for generations upon generations." Said outgoing Israeli Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan last week: "The settlements will be established, and all the Arabs can do about it is scurry around like doped cockroaches in a bottle." Few Israeli officials would express their views so callously, but this blind determination to retain a captured territory...
...trial of the remaining defendants, including Major David Mofaz, deputy commander of the Judea district at the time, has been in progress since November and is expected to end Feb. 17. Mofaz and witnesses have testified that the military governor of the district, Lieut. Colonel Shalom Lugassi, to "enforce a curfew" in an Arab refugee camp, ordered his officers and men to shoot down alleyways, fire at the panels of solar heaters and break the wristwatches of Palestinian detainees. Mofaz is accused of assaulting some detainees and of failing to prevent the other defendants from doing...
...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...