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...only fair now to quote what Professor Said himself says about this: "The present Palestinian position therefore is [notice the careful formulation--he says the present position, i.e. subject to change] Israeli withdrawal from the West bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza; the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on those territories..." But in a recent television interview, Professor Said stated that the PLO demands self-determination for the Palestinians not only in these areas mentioned above, but also in Israel as Israeli citizens...
...fact, Begin and his colleagues have left themselves considerable latitude to negotiate on that matter. The much more fundamental, probably insoluble problem is Begin's seeming commitment, passionately held and repeatedly articulated, to the incorporation into the Jewish state of what he calls the liberated territories of Judea and Samaria-and what most of the world, the U.S. included, calls the occupied territories of the West Bank...
...Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits a country from moving its own people into occupied territories, and partly because the pioneer communities are a provocation to the Arabs. On the other hand, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin has always insisted upon the right of Jews to live in Judea and Samaria (the biblical lands that encompassed the West Bank) and their historical obligation to settle it. On separate visits to Washington last year, Begin and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan assured U.S. officials that there would be no new civilian settlements in the West Bank and that any new pioneers in the area...
...reestablished a settlement on the site. Almost no one else is. Shiloh is the newest of four illegal settlements in the West Bank created and populated by Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful), a nationalistic religious group that believes in the God-given right of Israelis to inhabit ancient Judea and Samaria. Washington, most Arabs and even many Israelis regard the settlements - and the Begin government's refusal to uproot them - as a major obstacle to peace. Even the Israeli soldiers guarding the 60 men, women and small children of Shiloh from hostile Arabs oppose the settlement...
...also lives in Yamit: "I didn't come from Miami Beach to live in Egypt!" As settlers demonstrated outside, a member of Begin's own Likud coalition, Moshe Shamir, argued their case in the Knesset: "My heart is laden with pain as I see our settlers in Judea, Samaria and Sinai cry out in agony as their dreams are shattered before their eyes...