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Rabin's solution is West Bank expansion, plus
Palestinian separation.
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n the wake of the horrifying
slaughter outside Netanya,
the Israeli government has
been moving simultaneously
in opposite directions.
One thrust was to come out of
the closet and officially boost the
Israeli population of the West
Bank settlements around
Jerusalem. The government ap-
proved, in some cases retroac-
tively, the construction of dose to
4,000 housing units in Ma'aleh
Adumim, Givat Ze'ev, and the ex-
clusively Orthodox town of Betar.
The other thrust, tossed out
last week during Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin's bootless pep talk
to the nation, was "separation"
between the Israeli and Pales-
tinian peoples.
Once again, the government
seemed to be working at cross
purposes. And once again the
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tion of an additional 2,800 units
in 1995-96. Many of these apart-
ments will be sold with the aid of
government grants and mort-
gages.
While making it possible for
tens of thousands more Israelis
to settle in the West Bank, the
government has announced a pol-
icy of "separation." Israel will deal
with Islamic terror by moving to-
ward demographic and econom-
ic "separation." The translation
of this new slogan seems to keep
Palestinians — malevolent or
otherwise — out of sovereign Is-
raeli territory, and probably out
of Israeli population centers in
the West Bank, as well. Just how
to achieve this goal has been left
to Treasury Minister Avraham
Shohat and Police Minister
Moshe Shahal.
Mr. Rabin already has dis-
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prime minister appeared to have
reversed himself on a high-pro-
file issue. Just days before the
special ministerial committee ap-
proved the building binge, Mr.
Rabin had declared that the three
large suburbs adjoining
Jerusalem were subject to the
freeze imposed on settlements.
In fact, the Rabin govern-
ment's policy on the settlements
adjoining the capital has been
contradictory for some time. The
much-touted November 1992 de-
cision to freeze the construction
of government-subsidized hous-
ing in the territories was modi-
fied two months later to allow
construction to continue in
"Greater Jerusalem."
And last week, a special min-
isterial committee supervising
new building in the territories
approved, after the fact, not just
the sale of hundreds of apart-
ments in 1994 but the construe-
missed the original and much-
ridiculed notion of building a
"security fence" along the 185-
mile border with the West Bank,
though he still says that fences
may exist along certain segments.
Police Minister Shahal has spo-
ken of combining a greatly en-
hanced presence of some 2,000
border police with such new-age
technology as thermal sensors,
laser beams, radar, helicoptered
patrols, and the more tradition-
al watchtowers, spotlights, and
100 specially trained dogs. Pre-
sumably the idea is to control not
only the scores of roads crossing
between the West Bank and Is-
rael but the open countryside be-
tween them.
Whether this package can suc-
ceed technically is one matter.
(No plan, security experts say,
can guarantee an absolute bar-
rier against a single determined
suicide bomber.) Equally in-