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...boldness, secrecy and speed of an Israeli commando raid-and it had the same kind of impact. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, still recovering from a three-week-old hip fracture, suddenly emerged from his hospital bed early last week to appear in a wheelchair in the Knesset. There he brusquely announced that his government would make into law what Israel has long accomplished in fact: the takeover of the strategic Golan Heights, 444 sq. mi. of rocky terrain captured from Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967. Said Begin: "We are talking about our very lives...
After more than six hours of raucous debate, Begin got what he wanted. By a 63-to-21 vote, the Knesset agreed to extend "the law, jurisdiction and administration of the state" to the heights area, which has been treated for 14 years by Israel as occupied foreign territory under military rule. Israel's move fell short of outright annexation, but only in the narrowest legal sense...
Begin, however, had anticipated the American reaction in his pugnacious Knesset speech: "We consciously decided not to ask [the U.S.], since we had no doubt that our American friends would tell us no, and with all due respect, we could not take this no into account...
...Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank. The Gush now has about 125 families settled in and around Yamit expressly to prevent the Israeli withdrawal. Just last week 25 families moved into the local motel. In addition, they were joined in Yamit by three militant members of the Israeli Knesset, including Geula Cohen, who was the author of the controversial measure passed by the parliament last year that annexed Jerusalem and infuriated the Arabs...
...search for peace that led the Egyptian President, in November 1977, to travel to Jerusalem and embrace his former enemies. Not only did he break a 29-year Arab ban on direct dealings with the Israelis, he went straight to the rostrum of the Knesset to proclaim his willingness "to live with you in permanent peace and justice." More dramatically than any event since the birth of Israel in 1948, that courageous gesture transformed the political realities of a region bloodied and embittered by continual hate, war and violence. As it is given to few individuals, with a single, personal...