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...that Begin's begrudging view of autonomy does less than justice to the Palestinians' reasonable demands. For this and other reasons, Begin's shaky coalition could collapse at any time, thereby forcing new elections. The certain winner perhaps even with a clear majority in the Knesset, according to recent polls would be the Labor Party, which has never been particularly enthusiastic about settlements for settlements' sake. The Labor solution to the West Bank problem has traditionally involved a "territorial compromise" with Jordan, perhaps leading to a West Bank-East Bank state whose population would...
...only to maintain the status quo in order to tighten its grip over the occupied territories. "The settlement activity shows that Israel is not serious. Begin won't formally annex the West Bank," says Abu Zuluf, "because he doesn't want all those Palestinians voting for the Knesset. He just wants the land and not the people." The tall (6 ft. 6 in.), pipe-smoking editor, a onetime basketball star at the American University of Beirut, is especially anxious for a settlement because two of his three sons, who are studying at universities in England, "are hinting that...
...Begin government's rush to create new settlements in the West Bank has drawn fire in Israel as well as abroad. Earlier this month, 20,000 Israeli farmers demonstrated outside the Knesset, demanding that the government spend less money on settlements and more on 11 the country's economically depressed agriculture. Other Israelis criticize the settlement policy as a de facto annexation of the occupied territories. The West Bank, argues Meir Merhav, economics editor of the Jerusalem Post, "is to be carved up by a grid of roads, settlements and strongholds into a score of little Bantustans...
...Israelis also did little to help the peace process with the selection of their new Foreign Minister to succeed Moshe Dayan, who resigned in October. The choice: Knesset Speaker Yitzhak Shamir, 64, a leader of the extremist Stern Gang during the struggle for Israel's independence, and a very determined hawk. Shamir abstained from voting on both the Camp David accords and the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty when they came before the Knesset for approval. One opposition spokesman charged in parliament that it was "the height of absurdity" to name a foreign policy spokesman opposed to his government...
Seldom in recent years has the U.S. been subjected to so much scorn and ridicule. In Israel, the Knesset formally rejected the U.N. resolution, which Premier Menachem Begin described as "repugnant and unjustified." American Jewish publications, reflecting Israeli opinion, were unimpressed by Carter's disavowal. Brooklyn's Jewish Press charged that Carter had sold out Israel for oil and described his action as a "stab in the back" to all of its readers. Reporting Carter's reversal, Saudi Arabia's state-controlled radio said acidly: "May God have mercy on his soul." The Kuwait daily...