The New York Times · 10 December 1989

CP-1989-043

West Bank and Taxes

Jesse Zel Lurie

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To the Editor: Clinton Bailey’s comparison of the tax revolt in the West Bank town of Beit Sahour to an American town with a majority of former Mexicans “who wished to secede from the Union” is false (letter, Nov. 26). Beit Sahour does not have a “majority” of former Palestinians. It is all Palestinian, 100 percent Palestinian Arabs.

It cannot secede from Israel because it was never part of Israel. Beit Sahour is in the occupied West Bank. Its residents refused to pay Israeli taxes under the slogan of “no taxation without representation” — a slogan that should be familiar to all U.S. citizens.

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