The Town Talk · 27 January 1981
CP-1981-015
Begin Gets Parliamentary OK For 3 West Bank Settlements
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Begin Gets Parliamentary OK For 3 West Bank Settlements JERUSALEM (UPI) - Prime elections this summer and freeze land to Arab development.
Offi- Minister Menachem Begin, racing the settlement program lent an air cials said the land was needed for road-widening. to complete his controversial set- of urgency to the approval of the tlement program before national three West Bank settlements by In the Gush Etzion area, south of Bethlehem, settlers have begun the parliament's Foreign Affairs elections next year, won parlia- mentary approval for three more and Defense Committee. fencing off about 200 acres of land settlements on the occupied West "It's important to create facts in for farming.
Arab residents com- the Givon area before the elec- Bank. plained the land was being culti- tions," said an aide to Sharon, who The move by parliament Mon- vated by a local family that has day swept asid
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"Begin Gets Parliamentary OK For 3 West Bank Settlements," The Town Talk, 27 January 1981. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1981-015. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1981-015
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