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As a result, the traditional elites, who had cooperated with King Hussein during the years of Jordanian rule, are challenged by a younger, better educated, and more radical elite that is growing increasingly impatient with the Israeli occupation and the older generation's complacency.

Minister of Defense Shimon Peres holds West Bank municipal elections in the spring of 1976, hoping to bolster the declining power of the old guard Palestinian leadership.