Word: bardin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confidence-building measures the Shamir government claims to favor," says Hillel Bardin, 53, a veteran of the American civil rights movement. He was jailed for two weeks last year after trying to arrange a dialogue with Palestinians while on reserve army duty in the West Bank town of Ramallah. "You'd think the authorities would be delighted...
Given their meager influence on Israeli public opinion, which is moving furiously rightward, these interlocutors are strengthened by such criticism. At one meeting in Bardin's Jerusalem home, Jad Isaac, a Palestinian biology professor imprisoned after urging West Bank Arabs to plant vegetable gardens to achieve agricultural self-sufficiency, put it simply: "Even if all we do is talk, it is good...