Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imagine what it must be like for an 18-year-old soldier to be surrounded by scores of Palestinians, throwing rocks meant to kill. It is very hard for me to understand why Moses feels "shame and guilt," rather than sadness about the situation in the West Bank and Gaza. I too feel "nauseous" when watching the news on television, not because of Israel's "immorality," however, but because of the injustice done to the Israeli perspective...
...comedians joke the essence of being a Jewish male is to feel shame and guilt, then lately I have been an excellent son of Israel. I can't read the newspaper or watch television news broadcasts because reports of fighting in the West Bank and Gaza strip make me nauseous...
Egypt regains control of the Gaza Strip...
...TIME by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman,* 50% agreed that the Israelis had used "too much force" to quell the Palestinian protests, while only 23% said Israel had used "about the right amount." Fifty-six percent said Israel had in general treated the Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza unfairly, while only 16% thought they had been handled fairly. And 50% of those polled said the U.S. was right to criticize Israel, while 35% thought it was wrong...
...unexpected sources. After having his tour of the Kalandia camp cut short by rock throwing, Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island faulted Israel's management of the crisis. Another visitor, British Foreign Office Junior Minister David Mellor, infuriated Israelis when he emerged from the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza and called conditions in such camps an "affront to civilized values." He also sharply upbraided an Israeli army colonel for arresting a 14-year-old boy accused of throwing stones. "I saw no stones being thrown," Mellor told the stunned officer...