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...cause, the sons of Palestine are ready to die. That simple but powerful fact keeps the intifadeh going strong a year after it erupted in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Khaled Tbeilah, 14, who worked in a candy factory to help feed his family when he was not throwing stones at Israeli patrols, became one of the most recent Palestinian "martyrs" on Oct. 18, when a plastic bullet fired by an Israeli soldier in the West Bank city of Nablus killed him. His parents and nine siblings are grieving but are no less determined to fight...
...rancorous enemy?" Though the death of her brother came as a terrible shock, Rana insists that it has not made her hate Jews. "But I do hate the occupation. If the Israelis are really bothered by the Palestinians hating them, then they should leave the West Bank and Gaza...
...P.L.O., the timing could not be more favorable. The meeting will come only a week before the first anniversary of the Palestinian intifadeh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. That uprising, more than any other event, has thrust the Palestinian issue to the forefront of the international agenda. Just as repressive Israeli measures altered some perceptions about the Palestinians and generally bolstered international sympathy for their cause, Shultz's refusal to grant a visa put Arafat in the headlines and renewed debate on whether the U.S. should acknowledge the P.L.O. as the sole representative of the Palestinian...
...solidify his leadership among those involved in the intifadeh as well as among Palestinians in exile. As a result, the P.L.O. is established more firmly than ever as the sole representative of the Palestinian people. Israel can no longer reasonably hope that a group of West Bank or Gaza leaders unaffiliated with the P.L.O. will emerge...
...actions as irrelevant gimmickry designed largely to improve the P.L.O.'s image abroad. Arafat's message, in fact, was aimed not so much at Israel as at the U.S., which the Palestinian leader feels is the only country that can pressure Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza. Said Arafat: "The ball is now in the American court...