Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defying the U.S., Begin speeds up settlement of the West Bank
This doube has served to underline other tensions within Israel. The settlements that Begin continues to create in the occupied territories are like needles in a collective Israeli flesh. Each new settlement puts greater strain on Jewish-Arab relations. As tempers flare, the government feels forced to take security measures. Arab mayors who sympathize with the Palestinian cause are fired, schools are closed when students voice their discontent and the homes of Arabs believed to be friendly toward the PLO are torn to the ground. Many Jews recognize these injustices. So Israeli society is becoming divided between those whose anti...
...least of all the 8,000 troops who sailed to the sound of brass bands and cheering, anticipated the bloody battles that lay ahead. But all attempts at a diplomatic settlement failed, and war it was. It was an impressive late 20th century display of fighting for a principle?that a nation must defend its sovereign territory...
...Reagan and his Secretary of State, George Shultz, the signs had been unusually auspicious. Hussein had publicly interpreted the Fez summit communique as a tacit recognition of Israel. During the past year he had repeatedly advised the P.L.O. that no Middle East settlement was possible without recognition of Israel. He had also sought a mandate from Arafat to join the negotiations on the P.L.O.'s behalf. Administration officials noted that, even as Hussein was conferring with Reagan last week, a chief aide to Arafat, Khalid al Hassan, was staying at the same hotel as Hussein and was being kept...
Nowhere did investors benefit more handsomely than on Wall Street. Abruptly abandoning a costly seven-year struggle to break up AT&T, the world's largest business corporation (1981 revenues: $58.2 billion), the U.S. Justice Department agreed to a surprising out-of-court settlement in which Ma Bell pledged to divest itself of about 75% of its total assets in return for permission to compete freely in telecommunications and computer markets. The action directly affected some 3.2 million shareholders, who late next year will receive, in addition to each ten shares of AT&T then held, one share...