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Article: SOVIET JEWS: A MIDEAST ISSUE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 11, 1989
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Soviet Jews, long the rope in a tug-of-war between the American
and Soviet governments, seem headed for a similarly central, and
uncomfortable, position in the Middle East.
Israel wants them by the hundreds of thousands. The
neighboring Arab states want as few in the Middle East as possible.
The Labor half of Israel's ruling coalition wants to settle
them in Galilee and the Negev, underpopulated areas of pre-1967
Israel. The Likud half of the coalition wants to settle them in
territory captured from the Arabs in the 1967 war -- the land where
Palestinians want their own state.
And the United States, whose strong support has been essential
to the rising wave of Jewish migration from ...