Word: arab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ambiguous outcome of the election dismayed those in Israel and elsewhere who had hoped for clear direction. Most bitter were those who advocate a negotiated settlement for the land and the 1.7 million Arabs of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, occupied by Israel since 1967. Under the probable government lineup, the prospect was for continued Arab-Israeli confrontation and greater repression in the territories. Arabs braced for a harder line by & Jerusalem. A "fatal blow to peace," said a P.L.O. statement. "We expect more harshness, hatred and terrorism...
...Reagan Administration, which had tacitly supported Peres and his plans for Arab-Israeli negotiations, kept its dismay to itself and promised to work with whatever government emerges. Reagan's successor will find it all the harder to nudge the region toward peace talks. American Jews were concerned that a right-wing Israel, markedly more religious and militantly nationalistic than before, would alienate or at least upset U.S. supporters already dismayed by Israel's handling of the intifadeh...
...adopt a strategy proposed by Ariel Sharon, one of the hawks in his party. The Sharon scheme calls for Israel to incorporate unilaterally the Jewish settlement areas in the territories as well as land deemed necessary for security. Then it would withdraw its military forces from the remaining Arab-populated areas. These actions, Sharon argues, would safeguard Israel's military interests while granting some form of autonomy to 95% of the Palestinians living in the territories...
...This is the first time anything questioning Israel's politics has passed on the grass-roots level," said Trig Tarazi '89, president of the Society of Arab Students...
...Samson (the Gaza unit) have arrested dozens of leaders of the uprising. They contend that all their operations stay within the bounds of Israeli law. Palestinians, on the other hand, charge that the clandestine teams have been given a license to kill. Last month six Cherry men disguised as Arabs drove a van with West Bank plates into the Arab village of Yatta. When local Palestinians approached the car to identify the occupants, two of them were machine-gunned to death. Both victims were on the Cherry unit's wanted list...