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Those decisions led directly to more violence; six Jews were killed and 16 were wounded, presumably by Arab terrorists, outside the Hadassah clinic in Hebron. Among the victims was a follower of Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the fanatical Kach movement and former head of the Jewish Defense League. Vowed Kahane: "Two teeth for a tooth!" Israeli authorities later arrested and imprisoned him under an administrative detention order. In the meantime, Jerusalem police discovered an arms cache on the roof of a Jewish religious school in the Old City. The investigation of the bombings focused on both Kach...
Tensions actually eased somewhat in the West Bank last week as the Israeli army pulled its troops out of most Arab towns. In an effort to control Jewish hardliners, Israeli authorities cracked down on one of the leading troublemakers, the American-born Rabbi Meir Kahane. They arrested Kahane after learning of his plot to take revenge against Palestinians for the Hebron ambush. Barring more surprises, Sadat's decision made it virtually certain that the autonomy talks would remain deadlocked until well after May 26. That in turn raised speculation about the possibility of pursuing other roads to a wider...
...Americans have lived too long accepting Golda Meir's myth that there is no Palestinian people. The Palestinians [April 14] have not disintegrated. Nothing less than true self-determination in an independent Palestine can restore justice and bring peace to the Middle East...
...does Begin seem at all inclined to put the brakes on the ultranationalist ambitions of the Greater Israel Movement, the Gush Emunim (Bloc of Faithful) or Rabbi Meir Kahane's Jewish Defense League. By political pressure and sometimes by becoming squatters on Arab land, these zealots have pushed their country into an angry standoff with the Palestinians of the West Bank, which Begin refers to as Judea and Samaria, their names in biblical times. Since Begin's government came to power in 1977, both the number of settlements and the number of their inhabitants in the West Bank...
...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 so that [the Palestinians] shall never coalesce again into a contiguous area that can support autonomous, let alone independent, existence...