VOL. XXXV

NO. 19

10-FEBRUARY-1992

The Political Scene

The Americans are in no hurry to guarantee $10bn in housing loans for Israeland are insisting on credible and realistic assurances that none of the moneyraised with the help of the guarantees will be used either directly or indirectly in the colonization of the occupied territories. It may not come tothat, however, as the opposition Labor party has kicked off its parliamentaryelection campaign with a pledge to freeze the settlements program....