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Other Israelis acknowledge the injustice of the occupation but are troubled by the alternatives. "The occupation goes against the basic attitudes of Zionism," says Biblical Expert Shemaryahu Talmon of Hebrew University. "It's clear that we have not been able to turn the situation of ourselves as occupiers into one of cooperation. The obvious solution is to say, let's get out of it. But you can't return to a situation [before 1967] where Israel was twelve miles wide at its waist...
...twelve tribes (see map) the country stretched from Dan to Beersheba, which has become a famous phrase of definition. The country reached its greatest size two centuries later in Solomon's time. Begin has consistently referred to the occupied West Bank as "Samaria and Judea." Says Biblical Scholar Shemaryahu Talmon of Jerusalem's Hebrew University: "The Promised Land always includes Judea and Samaria and sometimes even the eastern side of the Jordan River...
Perhaps the most intriguing explanation is that offered by Biblical Scholar Shemaryahu Talmon, 56, dean of Hebrew University's Faculty of Humanities. Israel, Talmon argues, was born in desperate times that called for unorthodox methods if it was to survive. But, he says, "because we missed a beat in the growing-up process," the country has not made an orderly transition from frontier state to mature nation. "There are still traces of unorthodoxy," Talmon maintains, "and people have problems defining the boundary between what is permissible and what is not. In a society where you have unconventional feats such...
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