The World: A PALESTINE STATE: 'INCONCEIVABLE '

Menachem Begin was courtly and hospitable last week when TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neffand Correspondent David Halevy interviewed him at his Tel Aviv apartment. "This is where I hid out from the British in the late '40s," he grinned. "If they had ever caught me here, they would have shot me down without asking questions. "Said Begin:

ON A PALESTINIAN STATE. It is inconceivable to us to allow a Palestinian state. Let me tell you that's not only the opinion of the Likud. On this we have a national consensus. The previous government was also of the same opinion. Under no...

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