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Israel and Palestine: Historical Backgrounds310itself as settlement-conscious as Likud.” Government officials agree thatBenvenisti’s data are accurate, Hazelton reports. See also Amos Elon,“Ariel for example,” Ha’aretz, Nov. 11, 1982. describing a new townsouth of Nablus.58. Philip Geyelin, “On Israeli Settlements, Reagan Really Isn’t Trying,” LosAngeles Times, Dec. 27, 1982.59. Chaim Bermant, “Financial Influence,” Jerusalem Post, Dec. 19. 1982.60. Wolf Blitzer, “Lessons from aid victory,” Jerusalem Post, Dec. 24, 1982.For detailed background, see G. Neal Lendenmann, “Aid Levels to Israel,”American-Arab Affairs, Winter 1982-3.61. Chaim Herzog, “Good for the Jews?,” Jerusalem Post, Dec. 24, 1982.62. Interview with Jacobo Timerman in the dissident journal Haolam Haze,Dec. 22, 1982. On earlier Israeli relations with the Argentine neo-Nazis,including military aid, see TNCW, pp. 291-2.63. Economist, Nov. 13, 1982; Feb. 19, 1983. See chapter 2, section2.2.3.64. Davar. Nov. 11, 1982; interview in Trialogue, journal of the TrilateralCommission, Winter 1983.65. Uzi Shimoni, “The Allon Plan—an expression of Zionist and securityactivism,” Davar, Dec. 21, 1982.66. Anthony Lewis, New York Times, Nov. 1, 1982.67. And sold for hard currency; see p. 46. The figure that Richardson citesseems too high. Shmuel Sandier and Hillel Frisch, in Elazar, ed., Judea,Samaria and Gaza, give the figure of about 12%.68. Sasson Levi, in Elazar, ed., Judea, Samaria and Gaza.69. Bernard Nossiter, New York Times, April 3, 1982.70. New York Times, Sept. 1, 1981. See TNCW, chapter 13, for details andreferences.71. Irving Howe, “The Campus Left and Israel,” New York Times Op-Ed,reprinted in Howe and Carl Gershman, eds., Israel, the Arabs, and theMiddle East (Bantam, New York, 1972).72. Danny Rubinstein, Davar, Nov. 5, 12, 1982.73. Ha’aretz, Nov. 18, 1982; Israeli Mirror.74. David K. Shipler, New York Times, April 4, 1983, citing Meir Cohen’sClassics in Politics: The Fateful TriangleNoam Chomsky