Word: yisrael
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world view by the Old Testament. He began calling the occupied West Bank by its biblical names, Judea and Samaria, and turned to the prophets of old to justify what he felt was Israel's historical claim to the territory. He espoused the sanctity of "Eretz Yisrael," a term meaning "land of Israel" and referring to the region that in biblical times would have encompassed present-day Israel and the West Bank...
...Rabbi Haim Druckman, 49, a Deputy Minister who belongs to the six-member National Religious Party. The bronze-bearded Druckman, the father of ten, holds the view of many religious Jews that the northern Sinai, extending to El Arish in the southwest, is part of the biblical Eretz Yisrael and should not be abandoned...
...while nearby Israeli soldiers did nothing to stop them. In a private meeting last week, Major General Ori Orr warned a group of settlers that their actions were "provocative" rather than "acts of self-defense." After that, the settlers did appear to be distancing themselves from the current troubles. Yisrael Harel, the general secretary of a settlers' organization, declared: "Our message to the Palestinian population is clear and simple: Don't touch us and we won't touch...
...their cause, in part because they think the creation of a Palestinian state would reduce internal political pressure on their own regimes. Begin's government opposes the concept absolutely. One reason is Begin's deeply rooted belief that Jews have a right to settle anywhere in Eretz Yisrael, which includes present-day Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Another is the fear that an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank, dominated by the P.L.O., would present a new threat to Israel's security...