Word: gaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sentiment is one of chilling determination. It is found not just in Palestine Liberation Organization circles but also among large numbers of Arabs living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip who have hitherto rejected violence as a solution to the Palestinian problem. Part of it is born of the feeling that the Camp David accords are going nowhere. Part is an expression of anger at the bomb attacks last month that maimed the West Bank Arab mayors of Nablus and Ramallah. Argues Hikmat al-Masri, board chairman of Najah University in Nablus: "Under international law we should...
...several magisterial books, notably The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy, that traced the distortions of the democratic idea by the belief in a "popular will." Talmon recently sparked a debate in Israel when he attacked Prime Minister Menachem Begin's autonomy policy in the occupied West Bank and Gaza as "an archaic concept, a trick to shut the Gentile's mouth...
...three mayors concerned are all considered anti-Israeli militants. They belong to an organization called the National Guidance Council, the purpose of which is to coordinate strategy with the Palestine Liberation Organization on the West Bank and Gaza. Beyond that, all three are sympathetic to the most radical factions of the P.L.O., and at one time or another have been in difficulty with the Israeli military authorities...
Begin, 67, and Weizman, 56, had long differed in their approach on a number of major issues, particularly the question of a Middle East peace settlement and the future of the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. Weizman, a Haifa-born Sabra who rose from fighter pilot to commander of the air force, had been a moderate in a Cabinet of hawks. Of late he had made no secret of his frustration over what he saw as Begin's shortsighted failure to take advantage of the opportunities provided by the Camp David accords between Israel...
...arisen the way they did. One of the things that Camp David says is that if an agreement is reached, the military government is to be withdrawn. I'll be the happiest man on and to see that we Israelis let the Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza view their own lives if they behave themselves from the point of view of subversion. At the same time I think the Egyptians made a mistake in raising the question of Jerusalem...