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...Ahli Arab Hospital in the Gaza Strip last week, wounded Palestinian protesters jammed the emergency room. After unsuccessful surgery, Abdulatif, 26, fingered the yellowing gauze wrapped around his left leg. Still lodged deep in his left thigh was a plastic bullet, Israel's latest ammunition against the ten-month-old intifadeh (uprising) by Palestinians in the occupied territories. Abdulatif pulled aside the bandage to reveal a reddish silver dollar-size hole in his flesh. Explained a nurse: "There is no difference between plastic and real bullets. They both enter the body and destroy...
Since Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin instructed his soldiers in late August to start using cartridges tipped with plastic to break up riots in the occupied territories, Palestinian casualties in Gaza alone have leaped from about 20 in July to more than 170 in September. At close range, the bullets can even kill. Not surprisingly, Rabin's latest gambit to crush the intifadeh has provoked yet another round of criticism from abroad and from Israel's far left, which charges Rabin with excessive brutality. But it has also raised a disturbing new question: Are Israeli leaders turning up the violence against...
...design or not, Rabin's new crackdown may have the political benefit of reassuring Israeli voters who deem the Labor Party soft on the Palestinians. The right-wing Likud bloc of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir refuses to surrender any of the West Bank and Gaza, and some members even boast they could crush the intifadeh in weeks. Labor leader Shimon Peres has endorsed proposals for negotiations that would return some territory to Arab rule, which many interpret as signifying an inability to quell the rebellion. Rabin seems determined to prove them wrong. Said Shamir media adviser Avi Pazner...
Israel, on the other hand, has consistently refused to negotiate with the PLO--which the rabbis concede is the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. On May, 8, 1988, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir insisted that "We will never part from Judea, Samaria and Gaza (the Occupied Teritories.)" This should come as little surprise from a man who, only five weeks earlier, likened Palestinians to "grasshoppers" whose heads will be "smashed against the boulders and walls" when they demonstrate for their right to self-determination...
...always agree, but last week's quarrel between the U.S. and Israel was definitely out of the ordinary. Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead summoned the Israeli charge d'affaires in Washington to protest Israel's plans to deport 25 more Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The State Department publicly expressed "shock" and privately warned Israel that "damage to our bilateral relations will occur" if the deportations go ahead. That apparently means that the U.S. will not defend Israel if the expulsions are condemned in the United Nations...