Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palestinians, the Jordanian occupation, undesirable as it was, was somewhat more palatable because they at least shared a common culture. The West Bank Arabs may be well dressed and fed, but they despise their Israeli occupiers, despise themselves for being so impotent, despise the world for looking on uncaringly. They believe they are being robbed of their culture, shorn of their rights, exploited and humiliated...
...Every Palestinian has some horror story to tell about Jewish oppression: a relative deported without legal proceedings, a family home destroyed, beatings and arrests, degradations and insults, racism and arrogance. In a report on human rights in Israel, the U.S. State Department this year noted that in the West Bank "military authorities may enter private homes and institutions in pursuit of security objectives as they see fit. This has occurred frequently, sometimes resulting in damage to property and injury to inhabitants." The report went on to cite restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly, travel and political activity...
...leaped 18 ft. to the rocky ground below. Ten were hospitalized with fractures. Military authorities at first denied the incident, but Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman pressed his own investigation and found it to be true. He removed Brigadier General David Hagoel, 49, as military governor of the West Bank...
...books referring to Palestinian culture or nationalism are censored, and that residents of the occupied territories are hindered from receiving publications from Arab countries. Literary censorship, however, is quixotically enforced, and examples of a powerful new Palestinian literature-plays, novels but most notably verse, circulate freely in the West Bank. Inevitably, the themes of the writings reflect a yearning for freedom by artists living under an alien oppression...
...after the Six-Day War along the Jordan Valley-a first-line of defense composed of quasi-military outposts. Since then, Israel has invested $2 billion in settling all the occupied territories (which include the Sinai, the Golan Heights and the Gaza Strip). The 51 communities throughout the West Bank have alone received $1 billion...