Word: knesset
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...Israeli Knesset is scheduled to vote within the next two weeks on whether to negotiate the removal of Jewish settlements from the occupied territories, a condition Sadat demanded as a part of any Egyptian-Israeli settlement...
...Israeli Knesset, or parliament, must vote within the next two weeks on whether to allow the settlements to be a negotiable issue in the treaty discussions between Israel and Egypt scheduled to take place within three months...
...Knesset also must discuss whether Israel would consider withdrawing from the Sinai settlements...
Walzer also said that he thinks the majority of the Knesset, though not necessarily a majority of Begin's party, will vote to withdraw the Israeli settlements in the Sinai...
...fiercely devout Begin has introduced a troubling religious factor into the argument by maintaining that events related in the Old Testament give Israel a historic claim to the West Bank. He even insists on calling the region by its Biblical names of Samaria and Judea. He declared to the Knesset: "We did not take strange land; we returned to our homeland. The tie between our nation and this land is eternal...