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...Ramallah, Nablus and Gaza, Israelis were preparing for the final withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula on April 25, an event that some of them opposed and many dreaded. In a week of drama, the controversial withdrawal, in turn, provoked an Israeli parliamentary crisis, very nearly forcing Prime Minister Menachem Begin to resign and call for new elections. The vote marked the beginning of a parliamentary struggle that was likely to last throughout most of the year...
When the Prime Minister had at last finished, the chamber fell silent with expectation. Asked Speaker Menachem Savidor: "Who is in favor?" And when Druckman quickly raised his hand, along with 57 other members of the Knesset, the 58-58 tie vote was inevitable. His bad leg propped on a hassock under the bench, Begin could not look behind him to see how Druckman had voted. His Deputy Prime Minister, Simcha Ehrlich, broke the news to him. Begin then turned in his seat, grimacing, to stare at Druckman for a moment. When Savidor announced the vote, Begin rose...
...news conference Friday morning, Menachem Milson said once again that his country's struggle was not against the Palestinians but the P.L.O., and that a "crucial struggle" was under way over "the very possibility of coexistence between Jews and Palestinian Arabs." Until now, Israel has maintained that the 1976 West Bank elections, in which several pro-P.L.O. mayoral candidates, including Shaka'a and Khalaf, scored victories, were "free elections in the fullest sense." Last week, however, Milson hastily rewrote the official history, declaring that the 1976 elections had been undemocratic and influenced by P.L.O. intimidation...
...Israelis vigorously deny the charge. According to Menachem Milson, head of the new civilian administration, the change was intended to make it easier for Israel to help the West Bank Arabs deal with such local issues as health, sanitation and roads. "I want to see peace between Palestinians and Israelis," says Milson, a professor of Arabic literature on leave from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "I feel we are making progress...
...fulfill a key provision of the Camp David peace agreements by returning the remaining 7,490 sq. mi. of the Sinai that it has occupied since 1967. Even as troubles flared in the West Bank, and as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak continued to dodge an invitation from Prime Minister Menachem Begin to visit Israel (with a mandatory stop in Jerusalem, which Mubarak wants to avoid), the formal peace process between Egypt and Israel was moving ahead on schedule...