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...dream come true for Israel's Jews, who have feared they would become a minority in Greater Israel, with the Palestinian population growing so much faster than their own. It is counted as blessed news by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who predicts that most of the new Israelis will vote for his hard-line Likud bloc. But it is a considerable headache for Israel's economy, where housing and jobs are already in short supply. And it is a nightmare to the Palestinians, who see the influx as a new threat to their long fight for a state...
...timing of the resolution promised tocomplicate U.S.-Israeli relations with IsraeliPrime Minister Yitzhak Shamir arriving in theUnited States yesterday. He was to meet Bush onTuesday...
...Shamir said in London, "Israel will not agreeto any foreign body deciding its future and fate...
...giveaway was designed to protest a proposed ban on the sale of pork by Jewish businesses. The pork law was one of four concessions the government made to the small ultra-Orthodox Agudat Israel party last week in return for a coalition agreement. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir also promised to impose further restrictions on abortion, curb public transportation on the Sabbath, and outlaw certain forms of advertising deemed obscene by religious leaders...
...Shamir's determination to reduce the Palestinian presence in Israel -- while preserving Israel's de facto annexation of the territories -- is likely to backfire, widening the fissure along Israel's 1967 borders. "You can't just put Palestinians into refugee camps with no money and no work," says left- wing Knesset member Shulamit Aloni. "That would be hell." Eventually Shamir will have to decide whether to allow Palestinians to nurture their own economy or whether simply to send more soldiers into the territories to face the wrath of the unemployed...