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Jews fighting Jews. Jews killing Jews. The idea is anathema in Israel -- yet becoming thinkable to some of the 115,000 settlers who have laid claim to the West Bank land they call Judea and Samaria, an integral part of Eretz Yisrael, the land God gave to the Jews. Although none have yet been asked to relinquish their settlements, many fear the worst is soon to come, and they are determined to resist...
...father felt, had left such a terrible darkness of grief in them, such a residue of adhesive evil, that they feared the communicated memory of it would haunt the child and blight his life. Better he should be a sabra and kibbutznik, raised in the sunshine of Eretz Yisrael...
...Labor leader Shimon Peres has been scrambling to put together a new government without his party's nemesis, the conservative Likud bloc. Early last week Peres appeared to have sewn up 61 of the Knesset's 120 votes. But on Wednesday two Deputies of the religious party Agudat Yisrael backed out of a signed agreement, leaving Peres two votes short of a majority...
...P.L.O. dialogue has stripped away an excuse Israel has long hidden behind. The policy of not dealing with the P.L.O. has allowed Israel to avoid entering a negotiation certain to result in its losing pieces of Eretz Yisrael. Branding the P.L.O. as terrorist has been the most convenient and effective way of keeping the occupied territories in Israeli hands. As long as the U.S. did not talk with the P.L.O. either, Israel felt no need to address the fundamental trade-off of territory for peace. Now Israel may find it harder to avoid the issue. In the meantime, some prominent...
...patrol the city of Nablus and its outskirts. The soldiers have been instructed to keep main roads open to traffic and to disperse small threatening crowds on the spot. If the group is large, they are under orders to call in a high-ranking officer. Their commander, Lieut. Colonel Yisrael, detests this assignment. "It's against everything we teach them," he says. "We train them to use their guns when they are attacked. Here it's forbidden." Here the aggressor, more often than not, is a woman, child or student...