Word: intifadas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dispute. Visiting the Holocaust museum shed new light on the desire for a Jewish homeland. Meeting with a Palestinian journalist, who had to travel illegally to Jerusalem because he is not an Israeli citizen, called attention to the civil rights violations that have occurred in the wake of the Intifada. Hearing the immense sorrow of a woman who lost her daughter in the Dolphinaria disco bombing brought home the fear and pain of living every day under the shadow terror...
...leadership from former defense minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer precisely because Labor had lost its independent identity while serving as the junior partner in Sharon's security-oriented coalition. Mitznah campaigned on calls for reviving political dialogue with the Palestinians where it left off at the start of the current intifada, and moving quickly to evacuate Gaza and much of the West Bank. He knew these positions would not win a majority of voters this time around, but he was campaigning with the next election in mind - and in that spirit, he made a campaign promise to stay...
Pipes argued that Palestinians would be better off economically if they accepted Israel’s existence and ended the intifada...
...speech. He was free to publish and publicize his poem about a Palestinian child who, he alleges, was “gunned down by the Zionist SS” (the boy in question was probably killed by a Palestinian bullet and mendaciously turned into a poster-child of the Intifada). Paulin was free to to boast, “I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all,” to advertise his sympathies for suicide bombers, to encourage terrorism, and even to incite to murder. The British government guaranteed his freedom of speech; the American...
...That the MLDEF would take this as an opportunity to oust one of the country’s premier academics rather than to address the real issues of the Palestinian intifada is disheartening though not surprising,” said Eric R. Trager ’05, a member of Harvard Students for Israel...