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...week, starting with a demonstration at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem and ending with a mass rally attended by 350,000 people in Tel Aviv. Energy Minister Yitzhak Berman resigned because of Begin's failure to appoint a full-scale commission of inquiry. So did Menachem Milson, the civil administrator of the West Bank who had been appointed by Sharon. And so did Yoav Gelber, a historian who had been serving on a commission to investigate the 1933 murder of a Zionist leader in Palestine. Said Gelber: "I feel it is impossible to investigate a murder that happened...
...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...
...Arabs' anger erupted in March when Milson fired three mayors, charging them with refusing to cooperate with his administration. Two weeks ago, he dismissed a fourth mayor. The first round of firings led to strikes and demonstrations in the West Bank and even in Gaza, which had previously been relatively dormant. As the reaction began to die down, a shooting rampage by an Israeli soldier at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem stirred up Palestinian resentment against Israeli rule all over again. The soldier, American-born Alan Goodman, has been charged with the murder of an Arab guard...
...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...