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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (26358)	4/21/2002 8:33:18 PM
From: Doc Bones	Respond to of 281500

Some of the downside of the West Bank settlements, as pursued by right-wing governments from the late 1970s on, in quotes from A History of Israel, Howard M Sachar, 1996. The upside of Israeli occupation was great improvements in the economy, education, and medical service in the West Bank, starting in 1967. Doc --------- p. 836 Thus, preparing for elections in the spring of 1977, Begin and his colleagues formulated a terse foreign policy plank: "The right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel is eternal and inalienable," it declared, "...Between the sea and the Jordan, there will be Jewish sovereignty alone." p. 866 To coordinate the settlements program, meanwhile, the government and the World Zionist Organization formulated a joint planning committee under the direction of Matityahu Drobles, chairman of the WZO rural settlements division. It was Drobles who laid out the committee's guidelines: The disposition of the [Jewish] settlements must be carried out not only around the settlements of the minorities [indigenous Arabs] but also in between them...with the objective of reducing to the minimum the possibility for the development of another Arab state in these regions. p. 867 Various techniques were adopted to promote settlement. One was to encircle areas of extensive Arab habitation with Jewish outposts, then to penetrate and fragment these Palestinian communities with a second wave of Jewish colonists. Another technique for ensuring a dominant Jewish presence on the West Bank was to restrain "uncontrolled" Arab agricultural and industrial growth. The goal was accomplished by imposing new restrictions on Arab water use including a flat ban on the drilling of wells close to the Green Line, and limitation even on authorized drilling, with meters placed on each well and heavy penalties assessed for overuse. p. 890 A 1983 state comptroller report confirmed that much of the West Bank land purchased by Jews had been fraudulently obtained from elderly and illiterate Palestinians. Not a few of the dealers were Likud party insiders, and friends of Sharon.