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tions they engaged in were in
defense of Jewish lives and
property because the govern-
ment allegedly failed to pro-
tect Jewish settlers from Arab
terrorists.
But the judges, Yaacov
Bazak, president of the Court,
Zvi Cohen and Shmuel Fin-
kelstein, refused to buy that
argument. They rejected a de-
fense motion to admit as evi-
dence examples of what the
accused said was a deteriora-
tion of security for Jewish
settlers in the territory.
The terrorist gang was
rounded up after a foiled at-
tempt to bomb four Arab buses
in East Jerusalem in March
1984 and exposure of a plot to
blow up Islamic shrines on the
Temple Mount in East
Jerusalem. Originally, 27 de-
fendants were put on trial.
Ten of them were convicted
earlier on the basis of plea-
bargained confessions and are
either serving sentences or
have completed their time.
Two others, Israel Defense
Force (IDF) officers, are to be
tried separately and are pre-
sently free on bail.
Plea bargaining played a
part on the conviction of some
of the remaining 15 defen-
dants. A charge of attempted
murder was reduced to caus-
ing grave bodily harm in the
June 1980 car bombings which
maimed two West Bank Arab
mayors and blinded an Israeli
Druze border policeman when
he tried to defuse a bomb in the
car on a third Arab mayor.
One of the accused in that
case, Yitzhak Novik,. said in
court that the verdict was un-
just because "I did what I did
in order to protect my family
and neighbors." He claimed
that "it's been proven" that the
car bombings resulted in a di-
minution of Arab terrorism in
the West Bank for two years.
Four defendants were con-
victed of attempted murder for
planting time bombs in the
chassis of four Arab-owned
buses on March 4, 1984. The
bombs were timed to explode
while the buses were making
their rounds through the
crowded streets of an Arab
neighborhood in East
Jerusalem.
The judges were divided
over whether the plan to blow
up the Dome of the Rock mos-
que on the Temple Mount was
a conspiracy. Judge Bazak
held it was not because no date
was set for the attack. But
Judges Cohen and Finkelstein
ruled there was a conspiracy
because the defendants ac-
quired wired explosives, pre-
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pared bombs and maintained
surveillance of the mosque.
Yehud Etzion, described as the
No. 2 man of the terrorist un-
derground, was said- to have
been obsessed with the need to
"cleanse" the Temple Mount,
ancient site of the Second
Temple. He considered the
presence of Islamic houses of
worship there an "abomina-
tion." He told the court history
would vindicate him because
the Dome of the Rock and the
Al Aksa mosque would even-
tually be removed.
The court heard character
witnesses testify on behalf of
the accused. These included
The judges were
divided over whether
the plan to blow up
the Dome of the Rock
mosque on the
Temple Mount was a
conspiracy.
Gen. Rehavim Ze'evi, former
commanding officer of the
Central Command; Yahad
Party Knesset member
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer; and
former Finance Minister
Yigal Cohen-Orgad of Likud.
All accused the present and
past governments of laxity
toward Arab terrorists in the
West Bank and failure to pro-
tect Jewish settlers.
The trial, which began in
the spring of 1984, was sus-
pended until after the July
Knesset elections and re-
sumed last September, opened
the court to charges of
favoritism toward the defen-
dants. Although bail was de-
nied, the accused were allowed
to mingle freely with family
and friends. They were
allowed to talk to reporters
during recess and had access
to telephones.
A minor scandal occurred
last month when the defen-
dants, being tranported from
the courthouse to jail, were
permitted to take a swim in
the Mediterranean enroute.
The police officer in charge
was severely reprimanded and
demoted.
Life sentences are mandat-
ory for the men convicted of
murder and tough sentences
seem likely for the others. But
most Israelis doubt any of the
convicts will serve more than
token time.
Israel's release last May of
1,150 Palestinian and other
terrorists serving_ sentences
for murder and other serious