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According to the Knesset Immigration Committee, 2,000 Israelis are now emigrating each month, mostly to the U.S. About 25,000 are expected to leave this year, 10,000 more than in 1979. If the trend continues, more Jews soon will be departing from Israel than arriving from other countries. Already 400,000 Israeli Jews - one in nine - are living...
...speech to the Knesset last week, Prime Minister Begin denounced the West Bank bombings as "crimes of the gravest type" and promised that those responsible would be brought to justice. But by his intransigence on the question of Palestinian autonomy and his policy of coddling the extremist Jewish settlers and their backers, Begin himself had contributed to the climate of violence. As the Jerusalem Post said last week, the bombings were part of "a process whose roots lie in the concept of perpetual Jewish rule in the West Bank, but whose shoots are the denial of coexistence...
...much as the futility of Begin's attempts to replace Weizman in the Israeli Cabinet's second most important and sensitive post. He first asked Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir to move over to Defense. The hawkish Shamir, 64, a Polish emigrant like Begin, was Speaker of the Knesset before replacing Moshe Dayan as Foreign Minister two months ago. To replace Shamir, Begin tapped Energy Minister Yitzhak Moda'i, 55, a leader of the Liberal Party, which together with Herut forms the backbone of the Likud governing coalition. Both men abstained on the Knesset vote ratifying the Camp...
Sharon's resignation by itself would not cause Begin's government to collapse, though it would risk trimming his majority to a mere two votes in the 120-member Knesset. On the other hand, if the whole six-member Democratic Movement walked out-in opposition to the appointment of either Moda'i or Sharon -Begin would almost certainly be forced to call new elections. To avert that prospect, the Prime Minister was expected to leave Shamir and Moda'i in place and possibly take over the Defense portfolio himself...
...Afghanistan, the Islamabad conference blasted the U.S., Egypt and Israel for their role in the Camp David accords and other "subversive measures engineered by the imperialist and Zionist aggressors" against the Palestinians. Muslim states were urged to sever all ties with Cairo, while Israel was denounced for the Knesset's preliminary approval two weeks ago of a bill declaring Jerusalem the country's perpetual and indivisible capital...