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Open Enrollment Through September A? 810-661-2430 LEVINGER FACTOR page 80 was irresistibly Zionist. Hebron, where King David ruled before moving his capital to Jerusalem, was a Jewish holy city. Jews had lived there, albeit as a minority, for centuries until they were slaughtered and expelled by an Arab mob in 1929. Yigal Allon, the quintessential sabra hero, kibbutznik, Palmach commander, Labor cabinet min- ister, was one of Rabbi Levinger's earliest backers. For him, the re- settlement of Hebron touched an historic nerve. Rabbi Levinger was careful never to demand too much. A few more Jews, an archaeological site here, another apartment block there, extended hours for Jewish worship in the shrine. In the clas- sic Zionist tradition, the rabbi cre- ated facts. But unlike his pioneering pre- decessors, Rabbi Levinger was not hoodwinking the British, or the Arabs. He was seducing Is- raeli administrations into deep- er commitments. To have refused him would have seemed a be- trayal of their own ideals. Rabbi Levinger's tactics were gradualist, but his goals were radical. His New York-born wife, Miri- am, who led a dozen women and their children to squat in a for- mer Hadassah clinic and defy Mr. Begin to evict them, once told me: "We are a link in the chain of the return. Until 1929 there was un- broken Jewish settlement here from the time of the Second Tem- ple. We want to re-establish a Jewish community in Hebron. "It's like wiping away the shame of an iniquity. Auschwitz I can't fix. What Khomeini is do- ing to the Jews of Iran I can't fix. Hebron I can fix." The rabbi lived by his own rules. He cooperated with the government and the army so long as it served his purpose, but his personal imperatives took prece- dence. "He would sit in my office for hours," Yehoshua Ben- Shachal, a former military gov- ernor of Hebron, reminisced, "and explain to me why he had to riot." If force were "needed", Rabbi Levinger endorsed force. He tes- tified in support of the "Jewish Underground", who were con- victed in the early eighties of killing and maiming Arab stu- dents and politicians, as well as plotting to blow up Al Aqsa mosque to clear the site for re- building the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. After an Israeli girl was killed by rockthrowing Arabs, Levinger preached "Blood for blood." His campaign commercials in the 1992 elections showed him tot- ing his gun and strutting through the casbah. Once, when his car was stoned, he fired indiscriminately, killing an Arab shopkeeper. He was of- ten arrested, occasionally pros- ecuted. Other leaders have taken up the running now, but the baton they carry has Rabbi Levinger's name on it. They are still daring a Zionist Government to cast Jews out of the city of Abraham, the city of David. And they are still ready to fight if their bluff is called. Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres would like nothing better than to be rid of them. The cost, in lives and money, of protecting the 40 or so hardline families of downtown Hebron is out of all proportion. So is the potential damage to peace with the Pales- tinians. Yet the two old men, function- ing these days as if they were joint Prime Ministers, know that the settlers, in Hebron and Kiry- at Arba are armed. No one is bet- ting that they would go quietly just because a democratically elected government ordered them out. Mr. Rabin, in particular, is acutely conscious of having to car- ry the nation with him. As an ex- army man, he is wary of trying to fight on too many fronts until the talks reach the final stage, when permanent maps and re- lationships will be drawn but the status quo will already have changed. The last thing he needs is to be diverted from the interim nego- tiations by a premature show- down — with the swing voters who will decide his fate at the polls in 1996, and with the Labour doubters who have to be convinced that he is not exposing them to unacceptable risks. And if that means contortion, his government will have to con- tort. ❑ Arab Owned Land Available For Road Jerusalem (JTA) — The High Court of Justice has cleared the way for Israel to expropriate Palestinian-owned land to build bypass roads. The roads would be part of the plan to redeploy Israel Defense Force troops in the West Bank. The court rejected a Palestin- ian petition, which asked that land past Nablus and Jenin not be used for the roads. The court accepted the argu- ment of the head of central com- mand, Maj. Gen. Ilan Biran, who said the roads were essential for security in the redeployment plan. He said the roads would be used by Jewish settlers in the re- gion during the interim phase, as w_ell_as by S_CI 1 ritv forces_.