Word: yisrael
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israelis may have been joyous at the White House, but at home they betrayed a certain ambiguity about the treaty. Some 70,000 sang and danced in Tel Aviv's Malkhei Yisrael Square on the night of the treaty signing, and similar festivities took place throughout the country. Still, the mood of the celebrations was more restrained than free spirited as Israelis looked ahead apprehensively to arduous negotiations with the Palestinians about how much autonomy their old enemies should have on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. And, as the Israelis realized, the hard-won peace with...
...that they must retain a presence in the occupied territories as security against future Arab attacks. Religious Jews, moreover, consider much of this land as their God-ordained birthright. Begin shares the religious Zionist view that occupied territories where Jews lived in biblical times are rightfully part of Eretz Yisrael. In fact, he almost torpedoed the Camp David talks on that issue...
...first year in office as Israeli Prime Minister [July 3] shows only that the former freedom fighter and first cit izen of Israel can't be controlled by his so-called allies. Begin has never been any man's puppet. His dream of an Eretz Yisrael is his life, and on the vital issue of peace and security for his people, there will be no dictation of policy from non-Israeli sources...
Whether Mondale's advice to Begin will be followed is far from certain. At his airport speech, for example, the Premier pointedly welcomed the Vice President to Eretz Yisrael-the land of Israel. As used by Begin, this term provocatively includes the West Bank...
...once by Yahweh to the Jews in biblical times, again by the United Nations to the Arabs when it partitioned Palestine in 1947. To the area's 5,000 Jewish settlers, and to thousands of other Israelis, the land is Judea and Samaria, a part of the Eretz Yisrael into which Abraham led God's chosen people. Disputes about the future of the West Bank, which was occupied by Israel eleven years ago this month during the Six-Day War, cloud the prospects for a Middle East peace settlement. More than that, those arguments focus on the cruelest...