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then, he said, "This would mean
the end of the peace process."
Mr. Netanyahu has clearly in-
dicated that he favors beefing up
the Jewish presence in the ter-
ritories, but has offered few
specifics. Where there are con-
centrations of settlements, the
gaps between them should be
filled in with more construction,
such as between Kiryat Arba
and the Jewish pocket inside
Hebron, he has said.
As to whether wholly new set-
tlements should be built, Mr.
Netanyahu says this hasn't been
tided.
With the Israeli economy
going through a belt-tightening
spell, Mr. Leiter said, "In all
probability the government is
not going to engage in large-
scale building" in the settle-
ments like the Begin and
1 Shamir administrations in
the 1980s. The Netanyahu gov-
e-rriment's attitude will give
the green light to the settle-
ments' expansion, but the dri-
ving force behind their growth
expansion will be economics, he
said.
The change in government is
already raising real estate val-
ves in existing settlements. In-
(restors and contractors who
stayed away from the West
Bank like the plague over the
last four years are once again
showing interest, municipal
leaders report.
"The feeling among people
who came to the settlements as
renters, with an eye towards
eventually buying their homes,
is that they'd better buy now be-
cause prices will go up by the
end of the summer," said Mr.
Leiter.
A committee set up by Rabin
to prevent expansion of settle-
ments is dying on the vine. A few
thousand apartments which the
Labor government took over and
then sealed are expected to be-
gin filling up.
The settler movement's "wish
list" includes a new Jewish city
in the middle of the Palestinian
corridor between Nablus and
Jenin. However, settler leaders
expect the bulk of their popula-
tion growth will not be in
"ideological" settlements deep in
the West Bank, but in "quality
of life" settlements nearer
Jerusalem and metropolitan Tel
Aviv.
Large commuter settlements
Efrat, near Jerusalem, and Alfei
Menashe, "10 minutes from Kfar
d a," function as suburbs of
cities on the other side of the
Green Line. They attract young
families for whom housing prices
in the cities and their environs
are out of reach. Consequently,
they also attract investors and
contractors. Especially when the
rime minister is as friendly to
e settlements as is Bibi Ne-
tanyahu.
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