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Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said on a visit to Italy: "We want to put an end to the riots and restore normal life. On the other hand, we don't want to kill people...I hope in the near weeks we will find the most right methods...
...have to handle it in the most human limitations," Shamir said, addressing a news conference in English. "We have to defend ourselves and at the same time continue our efforts for finding peace...
...response from Israel's divided leadership was ambivalent. Though hard- liners like Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin have been warning that the Palestinians should not be rewarded for their violence with negotiations, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres publicly applauded the U.S. initiative. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir initially indicated that he might accept "something less" than the Camp David timetable. But under strong pressure from the right wing of his Likud bloc, he expressed little flexibility, telling the Knesset he would make no "territorial concessions" and that the interim autonomy period would have to last for the full five years...
...Rabin first publicly announced the policy of "force, strength and blows" to put down the demonstrations, hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children have been clubbed and battered by Israeli soldiers. The apparent aim was not just to punish specific troublemakers but to terrorize the population into submission. Said Shamir: "Our task now is to re-create the barrier of fear between Palestinians and the Israeli military, and once again put the fear of death into the Arabs of the areas so as to deter them from attacking us anymore." Until a renewed outburst of protests in the West Bank...
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir toured two Gaza Strip refugee camps and vowed to improve living conditions in thesqualid areas, which are said to have spawned muchof the recent violence...