Word: hebron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among Israelis, the harshest reaction to the exchange came from Jewish settlers in the West Bank, who clashed with celebrating Palestinians and protested against the action of the Israeli government. In Hebron, a handful of settlers raced to the spot where a busload of Palestinian prisoners was arriving and began firing semiautomatic weapons into the air to disperse a crowd of 200 Arabs. Some of the settlers cried, "Death to the Arabs!" Hundreds of West Bank settlers demonstrated outside the Knesset. Their demand: release of 27 Israelis who have been convicted of terrorism or who are charged with being members...
...that the Likud has set for its cooperation: it wants Shamir to stay on as Prime Minister. There are also deep differences over other issues. Labor supporters were angered last week when, with backing from the Shamir government, four Jewish families established a new settlement in the town of Hebron. Labor favors a freeze on settlements in the occupied territories, and the surprise move was certain to add another stumbling block to unity talks...
...trial points up the emergence of a new kind of zealot: the West Bank settler who feels that the best way to fight Arab violence is with Jewish violence. The vengeful cycle began in May 1980, when Arabs ambushed and killed six Jewish settlers in the city of Hebron. One month later, two car bombs went off on the same morning, severing both legs of Mayor Bassam Shaka'a of Nablus and blowing off part of the left foot of Ramallah Mayor Karim Khalaf. Every few months fresh blood was shed: a settler would die after being knifed...
...explode at the height of rush hour, casualties would have gone into the hundreds. As the probe continued, officials concluded that they had arrested not just the men who had planned the bus infernos but those responsible for the attacks on the West Bank mayors and the students in Hebron...
...charges were laid against Levinger, but 25 other Israelis, including at least two active officers, some reserve officers, and soldiers from Israeli commando units, are now under arrest. Among the incidents under investigation are the 1980 car bombing of two West Bank Arab mayors, a July 1983 attack on Hebron's Islamic College and a foiled plot last month to blow up six Arab buses...