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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israeli officials predict the number will reach 100,000 by 1987, if not sooner, and by the year 2010, they say, the West Bank will contain 1.4 million Jews and 1.6 million Arabs. Says Ze'ev Ben-Yosef, spokesman for the World Zionist Organization's settlement division: "People are moving in every week, by the hundreds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Israel's Great Land Rush | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

Behind those remarkable forecasts are harsh political realities that may affect Israel, its Arab neighbors and its U.S. ally for generations to come. The accelerated building program runs directly counter to the Reagan Administration's efforts to launch talks aiming toward a broad Middle East peace settlement. Last September, President Reagan offered a peace plan under which the West Bank and the Gaza Strip would become associated with Jordan. He called on Israel to halt its expansion of settlements in the occupied territories, hoping that such a step would bring Jordan to the bargaining table. Prime Minister Menachem Begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Israel's Great Land Rush | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...paying $90,000 for villas that could cost $250,000 in Israeli cities, but many of the houses and apartments being built are even cheaper than that. Mazal and Moshe Levi, who had been living with relatives, discovered that they could buy a three-bedroom apartment in a settlement near Jerusalem for a down payment of only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Israel's Great Land Rush | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...newspaper advertisement for one new settlement promises, "A new road will be built that will enable you to reach Tel Aviv without the need to cross any Arab towns and villages." Critics argue that this is central to the whole concept: the creation of Jewish communities that have nothing in common and little to share with the Arab society around them. The schools and shops will be Israeli, the language Hebrew, and culture and entertainment will be available in the Israeli cities only 15 or 20 minutes away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Israel's Great Land Rush | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

...situation, but the results of the session are not known. Low-level officials of both parties are working on a political compromise that would give Nkomo and his followers a larger role in the government. But because tribal enmity is so deeply rooted in Zimbabwe's history, any settlement may prove fleeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zimbabwe: The Plague of Tribal Enmity | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

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