Word: shiloh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Carter Administration have accelerated sharply. Begin has proved unbending in his determination to establish new settlements, even though the U.S. has urged him to go slowly. Under his aegis, 23 new settlements have been authorized or constructed on the West Bank alone, including the "archaeological dig" at Shiloh. In the previous ten years of Labor Party rule, only 28 West Bank settlements were established...
...P.L.O. official in Beirut suggests sardonically that the next step will be Israeli settlements in south Lebanon. "Or it may be an archaeological dig," he adds slyly, referring to the illegal Jewish settlement at Shiloh in the West Bank that the Begin government persists in pretending is there for archaeological pursuits...
...then to build a military camp where you want a settlement and describe that as a new settlement within an existing military camp -no one can buy that here, so why should anyone outside buy it? And then the shameful subterfuge at the so-called archaeological site at Shiloh. I'm ashamed that an Israeli government can act this way. It creates such a lack of confidence in the government; these tricks are so stupid...
...added, "What facts is the government trying to create in the midst of the negotiation process? What would happen if the other side tried to do such things? How can one respect a government that carries out settlements whether under an archaeological [i.e., the disputed West Bank settlement at Shiloh] or a security cover?" Rabin's summary of how his successor has handled the negotiations: "An ill-conceived failure...
Settlers at government-backed communities in the Sinai, like Yamit, are a mixed lot: many recent immigrants to Israel, some religious, some not. Pioneers living at Shiloh are more mystical and more determined. Says Abraham Strauss, a 20-year-old yeshiva student: "God gave us this land, not Menachem Begin or anyone else. And no one, including Begin, can take this gift away from...