World: The Reluctant Israelis

In Israel last week, one effect of the Rogers proposals was to exacerbate a slowly swelling division between hawks and doves. Israel has no hardhats; the confrontation so far has been largely theoretical and intellectual. To illuminate this conflict, TIME interviewed a representative hawk and dove, Israeli-style:

YORAM ARIDOR is a young Tel Aviv lawyer and Knesset member of the Gahal Party who believes that "to accept the Rogers plan is to accept the principle of withdrawal, and to us that means waiving our rights to the Israeli motherland. Judea and Samaria [Jordan's West Bank now occupied by Israel] belong to us....

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