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...troubling questions were sparked by pictures taken at the scene by two Israeli newspaper photographers, Alex Libak of Hadashot and Shmuel Rachmani of Ma'ariv. Libak's photograph shows a young man, handcuffed and looking uninjured, being led away from the bus by a pair of security officials dressed in civilian clothes. Rachmani's photograph shows another young man, head down and with a small trace of blood on his face, being hustled away by an Israeli brigadier general and two uniformed soldiers...
...gives the Interior Minister the right to revoke the citizenship of anyone committing a "violation of allegiance" to the state of Israel. The measures were directed at Israeli dissidents and at Arab university students who have demonstrated for Palestinian rights. In a separate development, Begin's Justice Minister, Shmuel Tamir, resigned last week as the erosion of the Likud coalition continued...
...status of Jerusalem. As U.S. Delegate Herbert Hansell listened in obvious discomfort, Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Butros Ghali told reporters in Cairo that "Jerusalem is an integral part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and Israel refuses to discuss it." Israeli Minister of Justice Shmuel Tamir tartly responded that "Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and therefore it is not a matter to be negotiated at the autonomy talks." Sadat was reported to have ruled out another meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Said Sadat: Because of Begin's "wounding personal attack...
...Interior Minister Yosef Burg, were in a defiant mood when the autonomy negotiations resumed last week in a hotel atop Mount Carmel overlooking Haifa harbor. After Egyptian Premier Mustafa Khalil announced that Egypt would support a U.N. resolution dealing with Palestinian rights, one of the Israeli delegates, Justice Minister Shmuel Tamir, charged in a volley of diplomatic overkill that Egypt was "endangering the whole current peace process." The Egyptians insisted that they wanted the new resolution as means of bringing the Palestinians into negotiations. If the autonomy talks fail, they contended, a U.N. resolution endorsing Palestinian rights could serve...
...villages are ready. They're used to it." Opposition to the law is gathering force in the Knesset, but critics of the government are more concerned about the Bedouins' inability to appeal than about the terms of compensation. Says Begin's former adviser on Arab affairs, Shmuel Toledano: "The law is on the side of the government, and justice on the side of the Bedouin...