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That triumphant homecoming last week followed swiftly on a dramatic policy reversal by the Israeli government. Jerusalem had suddenly released the popular mayor from prison and rescinded the expulsion order imposed on him for allegedly having spoken out in support of Palestinian terrorism. It was a dramatic finale to an...
The mayor had been arrested four weeks ago, following the leak of a private conversation between Shaka'a and General Danny Matt, Israeli military administrator of the occupied territories. Despite the mayor's denials that he had expressed any approval of Palestinian terrorist acts, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman...
Shaka'a embarked on a 14-day hunger strike, during which he was to lose 26 pounds. Other mayors in the Gaza Strip and West Bank staged an angry protest demonstration and then resigned en masse. In a letter to Premier Menachem Begin, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance bluntly...
A three-member tribunal appointed by Brigadier General Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Israeli military commander for the West Bank, then reviewed the case; last week it was announced that Shak'a's deportation order had been annulled. Among the "many considerations" involved in the turnabout, General Ben-Eliezer explained...
Farewell to free expression