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...intensified. Jewish settlers on the West Bank, who constitute about 2% of the population of the region (excluding East Jerusalem), have stepped up their demands for the support of the Israeli authorities, and the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin has been eager to oblige. When extremist followers of Rabbi Moshe Levinger, founder of the Greater Israel Movement, illegally attempted to re-establish a Jewish presence in the Arab city of Hebron after an absence of more than 40 years, Begin allowed them to remain. In January, after a Jewish student was killed by a sniper's bullet...
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...
...differing shades of right-wing militancy have given rise to two main groups. Both originated with the Greater Israel Movement, formed in 1967 with the aim of annexing the West Bank. The most militant organization is Rabbi Meir Kahane's Kach (meaning "thus" in Hebrew), which the Brooklyn-born rabble-rouser established in Israel in 1974. Though only 30% of Kach's 400 members are Orthodox Jews, Kahane and his cohorts insist that the state of Israel should be governed according to biblical precepts. Kahane openly advocates violence to drive the Arabs out of the West Bank...
Somewhat less extreme is the larger Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful), founded after the 1973 war by Rabbi Moshe Levinger, 44. Gush urges a policy of aggressive Jewish settlements in all the occupied Arab lands. In several instances it has used the tactic of illegal squatting until de facto settlement is finally recognized by the Israeli government...
...teacher's view, in short, of why teachers cannot teach is that teachers are not allowed to teach. "The teacher today is expected to be mother, father, priest or rabbi, peacekeeper, police officer, playground monitor and lunchroom patrol," says David Imig, executive director of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. "Over and above that, he's supposed to teach Johnny and Mary how to read." Adds Edith Shain, a veteran kindergarten teacher at the Hancock Park School in Los Angeles: "The teacher doesn't know who she has to please...