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This settlement north of Jerusalem rises above occupied Arab lands.

ing this again," Mr. Zucker sighs
as the vehicle bumps its way up
a rutted dirt track toward a clus-
ter of empty apartments. "But
history has ruled otherwise."
Less history, actually, than
Binyamin Netanyahu's govern-
ment, which last Friday decided
to lift an almost four-year freeze
on the construction of public
housing in the settlements. Dur-
ing his election campaign, Mr.
Netanyahu stressed security, not
settlement, as the crux of his
platform.
Since his victory, however, he
has repeatedly noted that the set-
tler population grew by 50 per-
cent under the Rabin-Peres
government — its freeze on con-
struction notwithstanding — and
his government can hardly be ex-
pected to aim for less.
The 50 percent rise in the Is-
raeli population of the territories
during Labor's term is ascribed
by embarrassed Labor spokes-
men to the completion of 10,000
apartments started by Housing
Minister Ariel Sharon during the
previous Likud government.
Some 2,600 of those finished
apartments were kept closed as
part of Labor's freeze, though
Housing Ministry figures show
that almost half of them are now
inhabited by squatters.
Like so many issues in Israel,
however, the matter is not quite
so simple. Cancelling the freeze
still leaves key government con-
trols in place. Defense Minister
Yitzhak Mordechai, acting under
Mr. Netanyahu's direction, must
approve both the deliberation
and acceptance of all building
plans in the territories, and any
decision to establish an entirely
new settlement must be ap-
proved by a majority in the gov-
ernment.
Just how much construction
the government intends to ap-
prove and support is another key
question. Other than speaking
generally of investing 1 billion
shekels ($320 million) a year over
the Green Line, Mr. Netanyahu
has not disclosed any specific
plans.
More and better roads to reach
the settlements are another sen-
sitive issue. Labor invested 450

million shekels ($143 million) in
roads to bypass major Palestin-
ian centers as a security measure
that went along with the army's
redeployment in the West Bank.
But after Ariel Sharon, now
minister of national infrastruc-
ture, announced plans to con-
struct two four-lane highways to
streamline travel for Israeli set-
tlers, Washington asked for clan,
ification. Last week Dore Gold,
the prime minister's political ad-
viser, told Secretary of State
Warren Christopher that such
plans had yet to be deliberated
by the government — implying
that a single minister could not
make such a decision on his own.
Mr. Sharon, however, has a
long history of putting his plans
into action willy-nilly. Besides be-
ing famed as a juggernaut -- his
nickname is 'The Bulldozer," he
is known to be a great champion
of the settlers, who are likely to
press him for more and better
roads. "The bypass roads are a
phenomenon we never had be-
fore, and they make a big differ-
ence," says Chaim Makovsky of
Amana, an association to pro-
mote construction and settlement
in the territories, "especially by
making smaller settlements
more permanent and more pop-
ular."
This general scheme is known
as Mr. Sharon's "canton plan,"
which was adopted, in one form
or another, by both the settlers
and Mr. Netanyahu during the
years in which he led the oppo-
sition. Whether such a map is
what the prime minister is striv-
ing for is not known, but the
Palestinians certainly fear it.
Palestinian leader Yassir
Arafat responded by sending a
letter of concern to Mr. Ne-
tanyahu that warned against do-
ing harm to the peace process.
The Palestinian Information
Ministry had earlier declared the
decision to cancel the freeze "tan-
tamount to a declaration of war
on the Palestinian people" and
called upon Palestinians to "de-
fend their lands," sparking fears
of another round of the land wars
that have erupted between Pales-
tinian villagers and Israeli set-
tlers from time to time. El

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