Word: samaria
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...even a torched Israeli bus that was set afire by Arab rioters near the West Bank city of Hebron. But the episode in Kafr Qaddum underscored a new, worrisome development: the growing militancy among the 65,000 Jews who live in the land that they call Judea and Samaria but that is better known as the occupied West Bank. Touring Hebron last week, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin denounced the settlers' actions as "destructive." Said Major General Amram Mitzna, regional commander for the West Bank: "This is a job for the army. If there are any people...
...symbolizes a basic national dilemma. For years this small but fervent group -- representing only 2% of the country's total Jewish population -- has exercised an outsize influence on Israeli politics. Even many Israelis who question the settlers' tactics agree with them that the barren hilltops of ancient Judea and Samaria belong to Israel and should be kept forever...
...some people in Israel the issue is primarily religious, a fulfillment of God's gift of Judea and Samaria to the Jews as his chosen people. For the majority of Israelis, however, the motivation for continued possession of the West Bank is fear. Before 1967, Egyptian troops sat 35 miles from Tel Aviv; today Israel is protected by a peace treaty with Egypt and a wide stretch of desert between them. Before 1967, Israel's population centers were within rifle range of Jordanian troops; today 40 miles of desert and a river separate Jordan from most Israelis. Before 1967, much...
...Although a modest program was initiated after Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 war, it was Likud's Begin who launched a major settlement plan after taking office in 1977. His aim was to create "facts on the ground" that would guarantee that Judea and Samaria, as he preferred to call the West Bank, would permanently remain in Israeli hands. Apartment complexes, looking like college dorm towns and housing 400 families or more, sprang up on once bare hillsides. Couples faced with paying $85,000 for a two-bedroom apartment in Jerusalem could buy the same...
...think the establishment of some centers of population in the areas of Samaria and Judea has to do with the climate of relations between us. After all, in the Camp David accords we obliged ourselves to negotiate about the political future of these territories. We have never promised not to live there, not to settle there. In this part of the world, in this country, Jews and Arabs will live together forever, and the question is: What will be the political expression of this reality...