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Almost every day on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers arrest and jail hundreds of Palestinian teenagers without charges or trial, beat dozens of protestors and shoot the most threatening...
...gathering of the P.L.O.'s parliament on the outskirts of Algiers, Arafat's new state came into existence in name only, a largely symbolic response by P.L.O. leaders who wanted to show some political results for the eleven-month-old Palestinian uprising in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Only hours earlier, Arafat had overcome the protests of Palestinian hard-liners and persuaded the council to reverse its long-standing rejection of U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338, which - implicitly recognize Israel's right to exist. Needing a legal foundation for setting up a Palestinian state, Arafat cited...
...council also is expected to declare Palestinian independence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which Israel captured from Jordan and Egypt in the 1967 Middle East war and has occupied since...
Arafat and other PLO leaders consider the independence declaration a historic step toward creation of an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza. The council meeting is called the "Intefadeh" session after the 11-month-old uprising among the 1.5 million Palestinians of the occupied lands...
...Likud government would be committed to a goal to which the U.S. is, and should be, opposed: permanent occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank of the Jordan River, which Israel seized...