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...response from Israel's divided leadership was ambivalent. Though hard- liners like Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin have been warning that the Palestinians should not be rewarded for their violence with negotiations, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres publicly applauded the U.S. initiative. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir initially indicated that he might accept "something less" than the Camp David timetable. But under strong pressure from the right wing of his Likud bloc, he expressed little flexibility, telling the Knesset he would make no "territorial concessions" and that the interim autonomy period would have to last for the full five years...
...soldiers face that moral dilemma daily as they struggle to carry out a policy enunciated three weeks ago by Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin of using "force, strength and blows" to put down the rioting. Since then Israeli soldiers have wielded boots, batons and rifle butts against hundreds of unarmed Palestinian men, women and children. Israeli officials noted that the policy is far more humane than the earlier approach of using live ammunition against the rioters, which left slightly more than three dozen Palestinians dead. Though the beatings seemed to bring an uneasy calm to the occupied territories, Israel's image...
...search for a political solution, in fact, seemed far removed from the continuing violence in the occupied territories. In the two weeks after Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin first publicly announced the policy of "force, strength and blows" to put down the demonstrations, hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children have been clubbed and battered by Israeli soldiers. The apparent aim was not just to punish specific troublemakers but to terrorize the population into submission. Said Shamir: "Our task now is to re-create the barrier of fear between Palestinians and the Israeli military, and once again put the fear...
Attempting to put a better face on the army's mission, Rabin told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that there was no policy of "beating for beating's sake." Force was to be used, he said, only "against those acting violently." But Major General Amram Mitzna, the central front commander, admitted in a press conference that the "soldiers are not behaving as well as we had wished" and that "no more than a few" had been court-martialed for using excess force against the Palestinians. He added, somewhat apologetically, "It is confusing, not the policy and the orders...
...which affected refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank, was extended Friday evening to a neighborhood in Arab East Jerusaleum, the first time such a measure had been used there since Israel seized the sector in 1967. The restriction imposed an uneasy tranquillity in the territories, but even Rabin called it a "forced calm" likely to be shattered as soon as the Arab population was allowed back on the streets. Some curfew restrictions were lifted after complaints of food shortages. Israeli officials insisted that any shortages were self-imposed, the result of a commercial strike that has shuttered most...