Word: meron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...differences clear, there is nonetheless a wide philosophical gap between their approaches. The battle is not only over who will be the next Prime Minister but over what kind of society Israel will be ten, 20,100 years from now. "It is a struggle for Israel's soul," says Meron Benvenisti, former deputy mayor of Jerusalem. "It is a question of values, of what to do with our power, our land, our people...
...report published in April, former Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Meron Benvenisti concluded that Israel had effectively absorbed the West Bank and that "the whole political discussion, which is based on the premise that things are reversible, is irrelevant." According to Benvenisti, the Israelis have taken over one-fifth of the West Bank for military purposes and are in the process of assuming control of another one-fifth for settlements, farms and grazing. The West Bank is also being integrated into the Israeli economy: 90,000 West Bank Arabs work in Israel or for Israelis in the West Bank. Roads crisscross into...
...that the West Bank be linked to Jordan in a confederation. There are increasing signs, however, that while the Begin government accepted the principle of autonomy at Camp David, it is in fact aiming for the outright annexation of the West Bank. According to a research project conducted by Meron Benvenisti, a former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, and completed earlier this year, Israel already exercises direct ownership of 27% of the West Bank. But by using an old statute from the days of the Ottoman Empire, it has managed to gain access to as much as 65% of all West...
Even so, the Israelis were concerned last week that the U.S. would feel that their attack on West Beirut was a punishment that did not fit whatever crime the P.L.O. may have committed. Major General Menachem Meron, Israel's senior military attaché in Washington, called in reporters to try to claim that the Wednesday assault on West Beirut was aimed only at rooting out P.L.O. gunners who were firing on Israeli troops. But Meron had told the same reporters two months earlier that Israeli forces would go no deeper than 25 miles into Lebanon. When bluntly asked...
...Bank's 80,000 adult workers hold jobs in Israel, almost three times as many as in 1970. In 1980 the West Bank imported $400 million worth of goods, 80% of them from Israel, and had exports of $200 million, half of which went to Israel. Says Rafi Meron, a Bank of Israel specialist in West Bank economic affairs: "No one even dares to think that the West Bankers would want to break off from Israel...