Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leave aside for the moment the issue of how King, who was killed just as the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza began, would have reacted to the oppression of the Palestinian people. What infuriates me is the letter's implication that anyone who criticizes the Jewish state must be motivated by hatred of Jews. Some other letters to The Crimson have even attacked Jewish critics of Israel as anti-Semites...
Aruri said the guerrilla movement has also transformed the once profitable Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip into a major economic burden and created real borders between Israel and the territories...
What is the truth? Israel has consistently publicly condemned the policy of apartheid. South Africa's white minority officially denies equality to its Black majority. Israel's Jewish majority (83%) extends full legal equality to its Arab minority (17%). The Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are not Israeli citizens. Israel, as legal military authority since 1967 is forbidden from changing their status. Yet under Israel's control, the Palestinians enjoy greater social, economic and educational standing than in any part of the Arab world; though unfortunately, Israeli attempts to improve housing conditions in the territories have been blocked...
...long been clear to honest observers that the Israeli administration of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip--where the Palestinian uprising has been raging for almost two years--is a far cry from democracy. A series of military orders regulate the territories, and the neglect of the Palestinian population and the abuse of military power both before and after the intifada's beginning have been well documented...
...proposal would extend Israel's blatant disregard for the Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to those Arabs who live within Israel itself as Israeli citizens...