The World - News from April 2, 1985
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The Israeli government has strengthened its grip on the occupied West Bank to the point that it owns or manages 52% of the land and has made Palestinian communities a “patchwork of alienated islands,” an Israeli researcher said. Meron Benvenisti, head of an independent West Bank research group, said the territory is in effect being split into “two regions divided on ethnic lines.”
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