Mayors of three Arab villages in the lower Galilee expressed satisfaction with a decision last week by a meeting of ministers headed by Premier Shimon Peres to halt IDF military training on a disputed parcel of land and allow Arab farmers to cultivate it. The villages of Deir Khanna, Sakhnin and Arabe have for years been the site of bitter confrontations with the authorities over the use by the IDF of 4,000 acres of land for training.
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