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- <title>
- Apr. 30, 1990: World Notes:Israel
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 30, 1990 Vietnam 15 Years Later
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 67
- World Notes
- ISRAEL
- The Territorial Imperative
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Some 50,000 Muslims, 7,000 Christians and 4,000 Jews are
- ensconced in separate areas of Jerusalem's walled Old City. Two
- weeks ago, the fragile demographic arrangements were shattered
- when 150 Jewish radicals moved into St. John's Hospice, a
- four-building complex in the city's Christian Quarter owned by
- the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate. Church officials insist the
- move was illegal. Both sides faced off in the courts and on the
- streets as rioting crowds disrupted the Easter, Passover and
- Ramadan holidays.
- </p>
- <p> Last week the Israeli Supreme Court delayed by one week the
- government decision to evict the Jewish group, pending further
- deliberation by the court. The decision was likely to keep a
- sensitive issue simmering, since the Old City is part of
- territory seized by Israel during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and
- is just one example of a surge in Jewish settlement beyond
- Israel's 1967 borders.
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- </body>
- </article>
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