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...will be the year of the crunch. Israel is fearful-and the Arabs hopeful-of heavy postelection pressure on Jerusalem to withdraw from occupied territories. Beset by unrest on the West Bank, a faltering economy and a bitterly divided leadership, Israel could find such pressure intolerable. The Rabin government could fall and be replaced by a more hawkish administration that may embark Israel on aggressive and unpredictable action...
...rioted in West Bank cities, as well as in the old quarter of Jerusalem. Three Arabs were killed in clashes with Israeli troops-one of them a 16-year-old girl, whose funeral was attended by several West Bank mayors and other local dignitaries. In the aftermath, Premier Yitzhak Rabin's government debated new tactics for dealing with the cancerous resistance that is an irksome security risk and, increasingly, besmirches Israel's image...
...Dead. To Israel's discomfort, West Bankers voted heavily for pro-P.L.O. candidates in municipal elections sponsored by Jerusalem last month. Since February, West Bank towns have been rocked almost daily by protest strikes and demonstrations. With government permission-"We must maintain law and order," Premier Yitzhak Rabin insists-troops broke up demonstrations roughly and cordoned off whole towns under curfew. Seven West Bank Arabs have been killed so far in clashes between soldiers and demonstrators...
Though anti-Israeli demonstrations by West Bank Arabs had been increasing since February, the march clearly provoked last week's riots. Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin called Gush Emunin's action a challenge to government authority and a needless affront to Arab sensitivities. Still, the government has been ambivalent about the extremist group's wish to settle on West Bank soil. It has been unable-or unwilling-to prevent the zealots from stealthily moving tents and equipment into the occupied territories and staking out three sites that are now existing communities. While condemning these illegal settlements, the government...
...fact, the Rabin government may privately welcome the Gush Emunin's dramatic demonstrations for Jewish settlements; Jerusalem can then explain to Washington that it cannot oppose the people's will. On the day after the march, the Premier toured the official settlements along the Jordan River and declared that "the establishment of settlements along this line makes it the defense line of Israel...