Word: annexation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still accuse them of it, most Palestinian leaders have long since given up the idea of driving Israel into the sea. Lately, even their hazy notion of a secular state of Palestine embracing Arabs, Jews and Christians has also faded (although Israel's Begin, if he manages to annex the West Bank and its 650,000 Arabs, may yet accomplish something like that...
...American society has been painfully reopened. The scene: Ohio's Kent State University, where National Guardsmen killed four students and injured nine others during an antiwar protest seven years ago. Last week about 100 activists stepped up their demonstrations against the ground breaking for a $6 million gymnasium annex to be built only 40 to 60 yards from the area where the shootings took place. Said one protester: "This site should not be desecrated...
Hanoi has been unable to devote its full attention to these pockets of armed resistance because much of its army is tied down battling a onetime ally: Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, who are trying to annex Vietnamese districts contiguous to Cambodia in order to regain control over the tens of thousands of Cambodians who fled the new Phnom-Penh regime. Viet Nam's Quang Due province has been repeatedly attacked by the Khmer Rouge, while Hanoi's forces have made counterthrusts into Cambodia's Svay Rieng. Neither government seems to have clear control of Chau...
...ANNEXING THE WEST BANK. I object to the word annex. You annex foreign land by international law. You don't annex your own country. You wouldn't annex Tel Aviv, would you? The same applies to Bethlehem...
...ascendancy of Menahem Begin to Israeli leadership signals a dangerous setback in that country's peace negotiations with the Palestinians--and demonstrates the continued existence of two schools of thought in Israel: eventual pullback from certain territories occupied in 1967 versus stepped-up efforts to further colonize and permanently annex those territories. The latter direction would also entail the continued observance of stringent controls over Israel's Arab population, especially if Israel makes further attempts to colonize the West Bank...