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Begin has shrewdly presented to Israelis an image of himself as a paternalistic statesman-partly by stopping loose postelection hints about annexing the "liberated" West Bank, which he invariably calls by its biblical name, Samaria and Judea. Says Philip Gillon, columnist for the Jerusalem Post: "Begin's basic views don't seem to have changed at all, and that is very worrying. But he has stopped shooting off his mouth as if he were still in the opposition. He has stopped seeing himself as an ex-underground fighter and has begun to see himself as the leader...
...visit to Kaddum, a West Bank development sponsored by nationalist zealots of Gush Emunim (group of the faithful) that had never been approved by the Labor government. The devoutly religious members of Gush Emunim, most of whom supported Likud in the election, believe that all of ancient Samaria and Judea (meaning the entire West Bank) is part of Eretz Israel, and they intend to create "new facts" for the Jewish state by building even more new communities there. Says Binyamin Katzover, a founder of the Kaddum settlement: "In my life and the life of our people there have been three...
...Foreign Minister, his presence in the Cabinet will reinforce Begin's tough position on the occupied West Bank. Since the elections, Begin has repeated that the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are "liberated territories"-and talked of creating new settlements in the areas of ancient Samaria and Judea. Dayan feels pretty much the same way. Only last year, he told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin: "We should implement Jewish settlement everywhere in the Jordan Valley without restriction, but without driving away the Arabs or imposing ourselves on them." Dayan, however, is a good deal more subtle in his approach...
...LIKUD AND LABOR. The difference between the parties is not on a Palestinian state, not on Jerusalem never to be divided again, not on no return to the lines of 1967. The difference is that the Labor Party says we should be ready to give back part of Judea and Samaria [the West Bank]. Likud is not ready to do so. To whom are we going to give it back? [In 1948] King Abdullah invaded this country from Jordan, he killed our people, destroyed our synagogues and he occupied part of it. Then in the early '50s he annexed...
...WEST BANK SOLUTION. We are ready to give the people of Samaria and Judea free option of citizenship. If they want Israeli citizenship, they will get it. If they prefer to keep their previous citizenship, they may. We are not going to force ours on them. They can have complete cultural autonomy and social and economic advancement, living in their homes. This is their homeland-living together with us. What is wrong with a Jewish majority living together with an Arab minority in peace, in human dignity, in equality of rights? I believe that we can live together...