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"I often have a feeling that we are two different nations;' he said in front of his closest colleagues from his Moscow refusenik days, as well as an ample assortment of members of Congress, United Jewish Appeal leaders and Soviet Jewry activists. "For many Israelis, America is a good place to raise money, and for many American Jews, Israel is a place they go to see what their money is being raised for." As a result, he said, "American Jews don't unders- tand Israeli Jews" and vice versa. Sharansky suggested the creation of an English- Hebrew magazine "with an editorial' that both com- munities would read, and identical Jewish education programs for children in both countries with student ex- changes also offered. He said the estimated cost of the magazine — $2 million to $10 million — was worth it. "We cannot have two separate people," Sharansky said. "And all this giving and tak- ing is all we have between us." Is Gaza Worth The Headaches? Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel may soon have to come to grips with the problem of the Gaza Strip — whether the continued occupation of that territory of less than 200 square miles with an Arab population of 600,000 is essential to Israel's security and worth the cost of main- taining law and order there. The issue moved to the fore following another fatal stab- bing of an Israeli citizen, Shlomo Takal, 45, who was knifed in the back of his neck in the main square of Gaza Dec. 6. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Security Committee Dec. 7 that the Gaza Strip should be demilitarized under Israeli supervision and the Jewish settlements in the territory dismantled. About 2,000 Jewish settlers live in the Gaza Strip and are as mili- tant as their 50,000 com- patriots who live in the West Bank. Premier Yitzhak Shamir blasted Peres' proposal Dec. 8, assuring his Likud Knesset faction "it will never be." He said it was "hard to unders- tand people who want to put Israel on the operating table" during this week's summit between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. While the future status of the West Bank is at the core of the split between right and left in Israel, many Israelis of both camps feel that Israel's interests in the Gaza Strip, though vital, are of short- term value. Eliahu Ben-Elissar, a pro- minent member of Likud's Herut wing, who was Israel's first ambassador to Egypt, ad- mitted recently that the densely populated Gaza Strip, where over half the Arab population lives in refugee camps, is more of a nuisance than an asset. Takal's murder was the latest in a series of assaults on Israelis in Gaza in the past year. Yisrael Kitaro, a 43-year-old taxi driver from Ashkelon, was fatally stabb- ed there on Oct. 7, 1986. Ten days earlier, on Sept. 27, Haim Azran, 35, also from Ashkelon, died of knife wounds inflicted while he was shopping in the Gaza marketplace. Killer Escapes Death Penalty Jerusalem (JTA) — An Israeli Arab convicted of kill- ing a soldier narrowly escaped the death penalty in a Nablus military court Dec. 10. Ahmad Ali Abu-Jabar, of Kfar Kassem near Petach Tikva, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of IDF soldier Akiva Shealtiel on April 6, 1985. Two of the three judges hearing the case favored the death penalty, but it was not imposed because the pro- secutor failed to demand capital punishment and one of the judges dissented. The death penalty cannot be im- posed without a unanimous vote of judges trying a case.