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Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir toured two Gaza Strip refugee camps and vowed to improve living conditions in thesqualid areas, which are said to have spawned muchof the recent violence...
...Israelis have tried tear gas, rubber bullets and real ones, mass arrests, imprisonment and deportations. All of those strategies have failed to stop the wave of unrest that has engulfed Israel's occupied territories during the past seven weeks. So last week Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin shifted tactics one more time. From now on, he said, his soldiers would not fire on stone-tossing protesters -- they would beat them...
...offered no new ideas for dealing with Palestinian unrest. Shimon Peres, the Labor Party leader and Foreign Minister in the national unity government, suggested that the elections scheduled for November be moved up in hopes of producing a government better able to deal with the crisis. Predictably, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the right-wing Likud bloc, rejected the idea, saying it "would weaken our standing in the eyes of the Arabs...
...Strip seethed and a general strike paralyzed commerce throughout the territories, the Israeli government sent in more troops, arrested more Palestinians, and cracked down on the violence harder than ever. "We must get a political solution by political means and not as a result of terror," said Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who is in charge of the occupied territories. "Arab terror will be confronted by the power of the Israel Defense Forces...
...curfew was lifted once a day to allow the purchase of food. "We have to beat them in their pockets," said a military official. "They will not be able to carry on for long without the money they earn working either here in Gaza or in Israel." Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir suggested that if the Gazans continued to riot, they might never be allowed to return to their jobs in Israel...