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...other side, the Patriotic Front of 90 mostly black organizations forged last October has split. The far-left Pan Africanist Congress, which still uses the slogan "One settler, one bullet," denounces the convention as a sellout to whites. So does the Azanian People's Organization, a small black- consciousness group...
...peace process into life, Shamir has countered by launching what is one of the largest Jewish settlement drives since Israel captured the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Ostensibly, the building boom is needed to house a growing settler population. But it is really meant to strengthen the Jewish state's claim to the territories prior to any negotiations. If Shamir can stall long enough, he hopes to make Israel's presence in the territories irreversible before peace talks even begin. Says Dedi Zucker, a left-wing Knesset member...
...fallback position. If the U.S. pushes him too hard, the far-right members of his ruling coalition will revolt. "My party is poised to topple the government if it comes to that," says Elyakim Ha'etzni, a member of the extremist Tehiya Party and a West Bank settler. If that happens, the peace process would languish while Israel prepared for new elections, which could well produce an even more hard-line government...
...Though only an estimated 4% of the immigrants have moved beyond Israel's pre-1967 borders, their presence has caused a housing shortage throughout the country, inducing thousands more Israelis to head for the territories. "People realize we have the upper hand over the intifadeh," says Dov Keinan, a settler spokesman in the West Bank, "and that there is very little chance of a territorial compromise...
...reaction in Israel was swift and violent. Hours after the shooting, two Palestinians were shot dead by a man witnesses identified as a Jewish settler in the West Bank, apparently in revenge. Bracing for further violence, Israel deployed reinforcements to guard roads, intersections and the homes of prominent Palestinian and left-wing Israeli politicians, who also came under Kahane's wrath. Said Miriam Cohen, a Kahane follower from Jerusalem: "The Arabs will pay for this with their lives. I don't care if hundreds...