Word: fearfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...without a settlement pays credit to the Palestinians' remarkable endurance and ingenuity. Armed with stones and Molotov cocktails, Arab youths have managed to confound the Israeli army, regain their tattered pride, and remind the world that Israel's "enlightened" occupation is a painful contradiction in terms. Yet many Palestinians fear their revolution has stalled. Mass demonstrations have given way to smaller skirmishes waged by a hard-core group of activists, and Israel has yet to concede so much as an inch of land. Meanwhile, the world's attention has been diverted by more dramatic events elsewhere. Frustrated and embittered, many...
That is precisely what worries Palestinian moderates, who fear that any escalation would jeopardize hard-won international sympathy. Already, the carefully nurtured image of a rebellion fought by children with stones has % been tarnished by a gruesome turn to Arab-vs.-Arab bloodshed. At least 140 Palestinians have been shot, beaten, stabbed or hacked to death by fellow Arabs. Most of the victims were charged with collaborating with the occupation...
...Prime Minister.' " Komarek feels that the Civic Forum tends too heavily toward compromise and should instead mount a radical assault on the existing order. "What's needed," he says, "is the establishment immediately of an interim government of experts, democratic experts." For their part, the Civic Forum leaders fear that what they perceive as a bid for power by Komarek might upset the delicate consensus that has given the opposition the upper hand in negotiations with the government...
...fear is that a political solution that included the Khmer Rouge would let Pol Pot subvert the administration from the inside while attacking it from the outside," said Solarz, referring to the dictator who ruled Cambodia in the mid 1970s...
...Soviet politician said the U.S.S.R. does not fear the strength of a unified Germany, but memories of the Second World War do linger...