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...mostly in stoning incidents. To the Israelis, the most dramatic effect of the army crackdown in the West Bank, however, has been the rise of a national debate over the basic question of how Arabs under Israeli rule should be treated. A spokesman for the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin declared last week that Jerusalem's aim in the West Bank was to block the growth and influence of the Palestine Liberation Organization. But he added, "Personally, I have reservations about how it is being done." Echoing that sentiment, members of the Labor opposition and many ordinary citizens...
...traced to a decision by Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon last November to institute a "civil administration" for the West Bank and Gaza, replacing the purely military government that had prevailed since the occupation began in June 1967. Sharon put a Hebrew University professor of Arabic literature, Menachem Milson, in charge of the new administration. But mayors, intellectuals and student leaders in the West Bank were skeptical, fearing that the civil administration would evolve into a form of "autonomy" that would seemingly meet the requirements of the Camp David agreements but fall far short of the self-determination that...
...pledge last week as he spoke at the opening of a new Israeli military outpost in the West Bank Valley of Elah where, according to biblical tradition, Goliath was slain by David. Having returned the final third of the Sinai Peninsula to Egyptian control, the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin was showing that it had no intention of ever agreeing to a similar withdrawal from the other Arab territories occupied since 1967. "Israel has now reached the red line of its concessions," declared Sharon. Begin, whose government announced last week that six more settlements will be built...
Prime Minister Menachem Begin defended the blackout, saying that it was part of an effort to "prevent bloodshed." He argued that the presence of television cameras and crews in Yamit could lead to "demonstrative tragedies." Unconvinced, Israel's major newspapers left blank spaces on their front pages last week in a gesture of protest against the censorship...
Defense Minister Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, 54, is the undisputed architect of Israel's bombing raids into central Lebanon last week. If he is not the most powerful man in Israel today, he is second only to Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Sharon covets Begin's job. "Arik would sacrifice everything, and I mean everything, to get the Prime Minister's post," says an Israeli general. Begin had misgivings about awarding the powerful Defense portfolio to Sharon, who had a reputation for disobeying superiors on the battlefield. Begin, who held the Defense post himself for more than a year...