Word: gaza
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ever been." Israeli settlement policy on the West Bank was a recurring theme. As Carter put it, "The massive and total commitment of Israel to this unprecedented settlement activity [has] created a new dimension. If Israel moves in any sort of final way to annex the West Bank and Gaza Strip, then any prospect for Middle East peace will be terminated in our lifetime...
...summer of 1982, when the Israeli army routed his troops in southern Lebanon and drove Arafat and his fighters out of Beirut. His dalliance with King Hussein of Jordan last April over President Reagan's September 1982 peace initiative, which called for the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to be linked to Jordan, enraged Assad and convinced him that Arafat must be reined in. The chance came in May, when Arafat promoted several controversial commanders within Al-Fatah, the guerrilla group that he founded and that still accounts for about 80% of the P.L.O.'s strength...
...well as such moderate Arab nations as Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. When Israel invaded Lebanon in June 1982, relations between Washington and Jerusalem nosedived. Things did not improve when then Prime Minister Menachem Begin summarily rejected Reagan's plan to link the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to Jordan...
...last quake to affect Boston came on January 19, 1982, when a 4.6 tremor was centered in Gaza, N.H. Since then, a few tremors have been recorded on seismographic equipment but have escaped public notice...
Still other Arab contingents were on the move. In southern Palestine, Egyptian troops crossed the border into the sandy wastes of the Negeb Desert to seize Jewish settlements on the road to Gaza. In northern Palestine, where Haganah was trying to secure the Galilee region, Syrian and Lebanese detachments attacked Jewish settlements. Egyptian air force planes swooped over Tel Aviv in the first strafing and bombing raids of the war. Palestine's native Arabs were panicky, almost leaderless...