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Repairs. TOP of the LAMP 17621 W. 12 Mile at Southfield Lathrup Village 313-559-5630 6461 Wayne between Joy and Warren Westland 313-525-0570 he largest block of land that Israel cap- tured during the Six- Day War was the Sinai Des- ert, which alone was almost triple the size of Israel. Emotionally speaking, however, the area that mat- tered far more to most Jews was the much smaller West Bank of the Jordan River, captured from Jordan. From the time of the Bible to 1948, the West Bank, which in- cludes the Old City of Jeru- salem (containing the West- ern Wall) and Hebron (where the Biblical Patriarchs and Matriarchs are buried), had always been part of the land of Israel. While the media refer to this area as the "West Bank," many Israe- lis, particularly those on the political right, call these ter- ritories by their Biblical names, Judea (see Ezra 5:1), and Samaria (Shomron — see I Kings 16:29). An Israeli who refers to these lands as the "West Bank" usually implies that he would accept their being returned to the Arabs as part of a peace settlement. An Israeli who calls them "Judea and Samaria" is generally making the oppo- site statement: He or she views them as an inex- tricable part of Israel. The status of Judea and Samaria call to mind the old Jewish joke about the Plot- nick diamond. A very beau- tiful young woman sits down at a wedding reception with her much older hus- band. The woman sitting next to her stares at the gorgeous diamond ring the young woman is wearing. "Why that is the most beau- tiful diamond I have ever seen," she says. "This is a famous dia- mond," the young woman responds. "It's known as the Plotnick diamond. There's even a curse associated with it." "How romantic," the oth- er woman comments. "What is the curse?" "Mr. Plotnick." Judea and Samaria are in- Joseph Telushkin is a rabbi and author of Jewish Literacy, copyright 1991 by Morrow, from which this article is printed with permission. deed a jewel. But they come with almost a million Pales- tinian Arabs who have no desire to live under Jewish rule. What to do with Judea and Samaria clearly is the most nettlesome problem facing Israel. Were Israel to annex the West Bank, her population immediately would become 40 percent Arab. Because the Arabs have a much higher birth- rate than the Jews, within fifty years the Arabs would comprise a majority of Isra- el's population and Israel would no longer be a Jewish state - that is, unless Israel annexes Judea and Samaria but does not give the Arab inhabitants political rights. In that case, the Jewish state would survive, but not as a democracy. In short, by annexing Judea and Samar- ia, Israel will either remain a Jewish state but not a de- mocracy, or remain a democ- racy but not a Jewish state. One Israeli group that profoundly disagrees with this analysis is the Gush Em u nim (Bloc of Believers), founded in February 1974 in the aftermath of the deeply demoralizing Yom Kippur War. A religious group - as its name implies -- Gush Emunim deems it a religious obligation for Israel to in- corporate Judea and Samar- ia permanently into her bor- ders. Many Gush members have settled in small Jewish enclaves on the West Bank: They are convinced that this is a massive guarantee against these lands being returned to the Arabs. It was from Gush Emunim's ranks that a Jew- ish terrorist underground was formed in the early 1980s to avenge Arab at- tacks against Jews. Unfor- tunately, the underground's activities were not limited to Arabs who actually attack- ed Jews. In one infamous in- stance, the terrorists were stopped at the last minute from planting bombs on buses operating in Arab neighborhoods. After the Jewish underground mem- bers were arrested, Gush Emunim's leaders decried their terrorist deeds. Gush Emunim's spiritual godfather is the late Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, the son of Chief Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. Zvi Yehuda Kook re- garded the building up of Is-