Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this trip was really necessary. Inevitably, there would be suspicion that at least one aim of the excursion was to dramatize Israel's concern about security at a time when the Begin regime is under U.S. pressure to pull out of the occupied territories elsewhere, especially in the West Bank. Israeli military men say that they had to commit such a large force?elements of two divisions, plus considerable airpower?so as to be ready to take on the Syrians if they chose to send some of the 30,000 troops they have in Lebanon into the fray...
...improved the prospects for the forthcoming Carter-Begin meeting. Nobody had been particularly hopeful anyway, especially after Begin let it be known three weeks ago that Israel no longer believes that U.N. Resolution 242, which among other things calls for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories, applies to the West Bank. Now, as one Administration official puts it, "the main topic may be 'Get out of Lebanon.' " Carter will once more urge Begin to show more flexibility (over 242, for instance, and the question of Jewish settlements) and will undoubtedly express some serious reservations about the size and nature...
...their bloody deed, the 13 young Palestinians involved in the suicide mission against Israel were sorely needed heroes to most of the estimated 3.8 million Palestinians dispersed around the world. Even in what a majority of Palestinians regard as the heart of their lost homeland, the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the Jordan River, Palestinian schoolchildren defied Israeli orders against political demonstrations by parading in tribute to the Sabbath terrorists and against the Begin regime's incursion into Lebanon. Says Mahmud Abu Zalaf, 53, editor of the West Bank Arabic newspaper El Kuds: "These attacks and counterattacks will...
Strictly speaking, Palestinians are Arabs who live or have lived in the area now consisting of Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, all of which was once called Palestine, after the Philistines who lived there (along with the Jews) in biblical times. The largest number of modern Palestinians still remain in that territory: 693,000 in the West Bank, 447,000 in Gaza and 574,000 more in Israel proper, where they have become citizens of the Jewish state and a long-range worry to Israeli authorities because their birth rate is much higher than that...
...harder and harder for Jews to see the evidence of that commitment. Last March he became the first U.S. President to call for a "homeland" for Palestinians, instantly raising the question of whether he was beginning to favor the creation of a Palestinian state on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Later he joined with the Soviet Union in endorsing "the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people." Through it all, the White House has seemed-to Jews at least-to be leaning far more heavily on Israel than on any of the Arab states...