Word: arabic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cabinet late Wednesday, following a Tuesday night phone call from President Clinton. "It certainly helped that the Americans are poised to bomb Iraq," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "The Israelis couldn't afford to be the reason that Washington was being given a hard time from Arab countries over action against Saddam...
...closely involved with the P.A. in implementing security measures, thus ensuring for the United States an imperial outpost in the West Bank and Gaza at the expense of any real Palestinian sovereignty. Finally, the Oslo Accords and the Wye Agreement virtually ensure that refugees, Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied Arab East Jerusalem and Palestinians living inside the Jewish state will remain dispossessed...
...Monday, Israel began to expand the settlement of Kiryat Arba near Hebron, a West Bank Palestinian city with a small presence of Israeli Jews. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also given the go-ahead on an extremely controversial Jewish settlement in Ras Al-Amoud in the heart of Arab East Jerusalem. Over the past 10 years, the Israeli government has implemented settlement plans that have drastically altered the population of East Jerusalem, which was in 1967 entirely Palestinian and is now mainly Israeli Jewish...
Just last spring, a further annexation of settlements and Arab villages of the West Bank into the territory of Jerusalem buttressed this effort to Judaicize Jerusalem. This plan secured that East Jerusalem would never leave Israeli hands. Last week, Foreign Minister Arial Sharon was reported in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharanot to advocate a 20-year incubation before the final status agreements. This must be an ominous sign to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza who watch settlements and the infrastructure that supports them encroach upon and divide the rolling hills they have known all of their lives...
...also crucial to consider the conspicuous lack of accommodation of Palestinian refugees (64 percent of the total Palestinian population) or Palestinians living in Israel in both the Oslo Accords and the Wye Memorandum. Many Palestinians living in other places in the Arab world are still living as refugees in camps, deprived of citizenship and its benefits, often disproportionately impoverished. In Lebanon, where Palestinians have not been incorporated into the state because their large numbers are seen as a threat to the delicate balance of religious groups, Palestinians from the Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp, which holds 350,000 Palestinians, have...