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in April 1982 Israel was readying to pull out of it's last strip of the Sinai (see map) the pro-settlement movement Gush Emunim are violently opposed to withdrawal, the main settlement at Yamit (planed to have 250,000 people, in 1982 there were only 2,000 settlers) was the center of this debate, in April 20 to 23 1982 the Israeli Army had to carry fighting settlers and their supports onto buses, pulling the last off the roof of Yamit's Synagogue, powerful leaders in Gush Emunim planed to stop the withdrawal by means other than protest at Yamit, the plan was to blow up the Dome of the Rock, however their bomb maker became ill shortly before the planned bombing, and handover happened before a new one could be found, it wasn't till 1984 that Israeli police learned anything at all about this plan, so what if the bomber hadn't gotten hepatitis? and in early April 1982 Israeli Settlement radicals set off a bomb that badly damages the Dome of the Rock? does this really start a war? does this stop the handover?

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