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Although Arafat has "renounced" terrorism, he holds fast to his support for violence. When Bethlehem mayor Elias Freij proposed a truce in the intifadah to provide an opportunity for negotiation, Arafat countered with this threat: "Any Palestinian who proposes an end to the intifadah exposes himself to the bullets of his own people and endangers his life. The PLO will know how to deal with him." So much for words of peace...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: A Decision Fit for Solomon | 1/25/1989 | See Source »

Through the week, tension mounted in Bethlehem. The colored lights strung near Manger Square were brazenly destroyed. After receiving several threatening phone calls, Mayor Elias Freij, a Palestinian Christian, canceled his annual cocktail party for Israeli and Arab notables. Angry slogans appeared on walls. One read, JESUS CHRIST, HOW CAN WE BE EXPECTED TO CELEBRATE YOUR BIRTHDAY WHEN THE SOUL OF OUR HOMELAND IS RINSED WITH THE BLOOD OF OUR MARTYRS? Nervous soldiers in riot gear stood guard as tourists filed into the Church of the Nativity, built in the 6th century on the spot where Christ is believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East State Of Siege | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

...chairman, Yasser Arafat, West Bankers have supported the P.L.O. as their only effective representative and Arafat as their symbolic leader. But as the fighting between Arafat's followers and their Syrian-backed opponents grew worse, the mood in the occupied territories began to change, as Bethlehem Mayor Elias Freij put it, "from despondency to disgust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Despondency to Despair | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

...Israel is creating living martyrs." Bethlehem's Mayor Elias Freij was referring to the four West Bank mayors who have been fired by Israeli authorities over the past two months. But the Palestinians of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip also have their dead martyrs, as last week's events testified all too vividly. Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Arab schoolgirls, one 14 and the other 17, in separate incidents. Their deaths brought to 15 the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli gunfire since rioting broke out in the occupied territories in March. An additional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Growing Doubts at Home | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...Arab League deliberations in March 1979, after signing the Camp David accords). In Jerusalem, Israelis speculated that the position of P.L.O. Leader Arafat had been undermined. But among the 1.3 million Palestinians on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza, the reaction was bitter disappointment. Said Bethlehem Mayor Elias Freij, a moderate P.L.O. supporter: "The Arabs are behaving like children. If you had a plebiscite here, morethan 90% would vote yes for the Fahd plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Failure in Fez | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

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