Omaha World-Herald · Omaha, Nebraska · 15 May 1995

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Israel Votes To Seize Arab Land

LOS ANGELES TIMES

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Jerusalem — Defying Arab warnings that it is endangering peace negotiations, Israel’s government on Sunday voted to go through with the confiscation of Arab-owned land in south Jerusalem to build Jewish neighborhoods. The vote was forced by left-wing Cabinet members who oppose the seizure of 131 acres.

But they were unable to halt the planned expropriation, even though four members of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s Labor Party abstained. But Rabin promised that there will be no further land confiscations from the city’s Palestinian residents for housing unless the Palestinian Authority agrees, Cabinet member Shulamit Aloni told reporters after the session.

“It was said openly in the government that it’s going to be the last one,” Aloni said. “The prime minister said it, and the minister of housing said it.” Aloni, the minister of communications and minister of culture, is a leader of the left-wing Meretz Party, Labor’s primary coalition partner.

The four Meretz Cabinet ministers had demanded that the government freeze or cancel its order to confiscate the land, arguing that such action would pose a serious threat to ongoing Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and other senior officials in the Palestinian Authority have warned that the confiscation could derail the talks. Palestinian officials on Sunday said that Rabin’s promise not to take more land does not resolve the issue.

“This is not the end of the road for us,” said Marwan Kanafani, spokesman for Arafat. “We should not accept this confiscation as a done deal with the promise of no confiscations in the future. This is a tyrannical decision that has to be canceled.”

Kanafani said that “extremists on both sides are now congratulating each other for this decision, which will lead to a crisis in the peace process.”

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