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Thursday, January 05, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Eshkol proposed transfering Palestinians
Israel’s prime minister during the 1967 Six-Day War proposed moving Palestinians to Iraq en masse, declassified documents showed.
According to minutes of a Cabinet session in 1967 published by Ha’aretz this week, Levi Eshkol made the proposals as ministers debated what to do with the sizable Palestinian population that came under Israel’s control in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
“We took in a population from Iraq, we took in 100,000 Jews, so let them take in 100,000 Arabs. It is the same language, same cultural level, there is water and land there,” he said.
The newspaper said ministers at the time agreed that Gaza and eastern Jerusalem should become part of Israel, but were divided on what to do with the West Bank.
Settler drive-by shooting
West Bank settlers wounded two Palestinians in a drive-by shooting.
The army said it had mounted a manhunt Thursday for an Israeli-owned car from which settlers opened fire on Palestinians waiting at a checkpoint outside Nablus.
Two men in their 20s suffered leg injuries in the attack. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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