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Article: Settlements by the back door. (Israel's funding of new settlements in Occupied Territories)
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- May 1, 1993
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THE SCEPTICS AMONG Palestinians and other Arabs who said after Israel's elections in June 1992 that Yitzhak Rabin's Labour party and Yitzhak Shamir's Likud differed only in style, not substance, are looking increasingly smug. They also have reason to believe that the new Clinton administration has little interest in putting pressure on Rabin.
Palestinians, as well as Israeli groups such as Peace Now, admit that Rabin is sticking to the letter to his agreement with the US government to abandon the Likud policy of funding settlement construction in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. But under the cover of an emollient and compromising posture that he has adopted towards ...