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...Yitzhak Shamir could have been excused for wavering under the pressure last week. Instead of concentrating its ire on Iraq, the U.S. joined in a United Nations condemnation of Israel, intensifying fears that the gulf crisis may ultimately be linked to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. All the talk of a peace deal in Kuwait sent another shudder through Shamir's government, leading many members to conclude that they may not get to see Baghdad burn after all. To make matters worse, Israeli officials had to watch as the U.S. Senate voted last week...
Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip began 23 years ago quite differently from Iraq's annexation of Kuwait in August. Jordan attacked Israel and forfeited the West Bank. A series of Labor-led governments held on to the territory for two defensible reasons: as a buffer against another Arab onslaught and for bargaining leverage in negotiations...
...Iraq's. Because Israel is, in origin and essence, a Jewish state, most Arab residents are never going to feel that it is truly their country. That problem is vexing enough within Israel's pre-1967 borders, where the population is 82% Jewish. But on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 1.7 million Palestinians constitute an overwhelming majority that will feel forever oppressed, forever cheated, never reconciled, never redeemed...
Frustrated by the way students and other community members have responded to recent events in the Israeli occupied territories, three undergraduates say they plan to organize a new student group to support the rights of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...same time the U.S. was wary of putting too much pressure on Israel, for fear of lending credibility to Saddam's effort to link his annexation of Kuwait with the Israelis' occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. A direct linkage would be disastrous, but given the depth of Arab fury over the carnage in Jerusalem, a strong connection already exists whether Washington likes it or not. Said a senior British diplomat: "The Arab-Israeli problem is now openly a part of the gulf crisis...