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...December 7 commentary piece "593 and Counting...," the Crimson incorrectly stated that 2000 Palestinians have been detained without trial in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza. The same error was repeated in the December 13 opinion piece "The Editor Strikes Back." In both cases, the correct figure about 9000, The Crimson regrets the error...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Correction | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

Beatings. Mass arrests. Rubber, plastic and lead bullets. The Israeli army has deployed all these and more against the Palestinians in a futile effort to smash the revolt that erupted in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip on Dec. 9, 1987. In the two years since then, Israel's politicians have bickered endlessly and fruitlessly in the search for a solution. The intifadeh goes on, the deaths go on, the Arab-Israeli stalemate goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Still Stuck in the Stone Age | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Palestinian guerrillas armed with automatic weapons offered a grim demonstration of that philosophy last month when they ambushed an Israeli patrol in the Gaza Strip and killed two soldiers. But stepped-up Palestinian violence will only beget more violence from Israel. Warned Brigadier General Zvi Poleg, who commands Israeli forces in Gaza: "The rules of the game change when lethal weapons are used against soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Still Stuck in the Stone Age | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...wrought an extraordinary shift in international, and especially U.S., public opinion, convincing many of Israel's supporters that the Jewish nation's continued rule over 1.7 million Arabs is dangerous and absurd. And after decades of serving as pawns for larger powers, the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have taken control of the Arab struggle against Israel, forcing the rest of the Arab world to play catch-up. Jordan's King Hussein took his cue last year by revoking his claim to the West Bank. Last December P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat made capital out of the uprising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Still Stuck in the Stone Age | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

SATURDAY marks the two-year anniversary of the intifada, the Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. During the past two years, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories has reported the following...

Author: By Jonathan Springer, | Title: 593 and Counting... | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

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