Word: freij
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...protests were directed against a new 8% sales tax imposed on occupied territories as well as Israel itself. Basically, though, the Palestinians were acting out their anger against Israeli military authorities, who have been their rulers since the 1967 Six-Day War. Says Bethlehem's Arab mayor, Elias Freij: "Until a Palestinian state is established on the West Bank, there cannot be any peace between us and the Israelis...
Whatever economic problems face a Palestinian state are nothing compared to the political one. Most of the West Bank's mayors and community leaders, like Freij, support the goals of the P.L.O., but they also feel they have earned the right to power for having endured and survived under the Israeli occupation. Arafat and other fedayeen leaders, meanwhile, consider themselves the genuine representatives of the Palestinian spirit for having fought abroad. A conflict between the two different views is inescapable...
...been caused deliberately. Curfews were clapped on five Arab cities-including Hebron and Nablus-and at least one refugee camp. Arab politicians, including ones who gained office in last month's anti-Israel municipal-election returns, charged the pacifying forces with storm-trooper tactics. Said Elias Freij, mayor of Bethlehem: "People are fed up with the Israeli occupation and they want an immediate...