STAFF NOTES: MIDDLE EAST AFRICA SOUTH ASIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86T00608R000400010026-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: February 6, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

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MIDDLE EAST - AFRICA - SOUTH ASIA
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Israel: West-Bankers Protest . . . . . . . . . . 1
Israel: Bombing Incidents Increase in
Jerusalem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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Israel
West Bankers Protest
Arab leaders of the West Bank's Hebron District
are up in arms over what they regard as Israeli moves
to expand and enhance the Jewish settlement of'iryat
Arba on the northeastern edge of Hebron.
At a public meeting on February 3 called by
Hobron's mayor, Shaykh Jaabari, 150 of the area's
mayors and notables bitterly denounced the Israelis.
The Arab leaOlers also passed a resolution calling
on the approximately 500 Arab workers at Kiryat Arba
to quit their jobs or face "the wrath of Allah." So
far the Arab workers are not heeding the call to
quit.
The West Bankers' protest apparently was trig-
gered by two recent decisions by the Israeli military
administration. One enables Israeli citizens to buy
--not just rent--apartments in the disputed orthodox
Jewish settlement and to build private homes there.
In, the other decision, the Israelis approved plans
for a four-lane road to link the settlement with
Hebron'shighway to Jerusalem. Possibly contributing
to the growing discontent in Hebron are reported.
Israeli decisions to give Kiryat Arba local se11--
government and to subject the Jewish settlement to
Israeli law rather than to the Jordanian legal code
still administered in the West Bank.
Jewish residents of Kiryat Arba have ca1J.n.d on
the government to prevent similar meetings by Arab
West Bankers. The Israeli military government
reportedly has warned Jaabari that steps will be
taken against him if he allows further meetings
which, the Israelis contend, only incite the people.
Israeli authorities reportedly also fear that resolu-
tions of the sort passed by the Hebron gathering
might encourage Arab terrorists to step up their
activity against the large number of West Bank
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Bombing Incidents Increase in Jerusalem
Jerusalem is experiencing its second rash of
bombings in the past two months. Casualties have
been minimal because Israeli citizens and security
forces have discovered many of the devices before
detonation.
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The pattern of the most recent incidents sug-
gests they are directed-at the Israeli presence in
East Jerusalem. The favorite targets have been
Israeli buses serving routes originating in that
part of the city. One bomb was discovered in a
Jewish housing complex just north of East-Jerusalem.
Approximately fifteen bombings have been
reported in Jerusalem over the past two months. No
arrests have been made in connection with the most
recent incidents. Israeli authorities are probably
especially disturbed by the continuing high number
of incidents in view of their increased efforts
during the past several months and up Arab
dissidents.
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