Word: israel
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Fortunately for him, Yasser Arafat tolerates drama well. Otherwise, the highs and lows, mostly lows, of recent days might have overtaxed his ballast. In the course of two weeks, Arafat has seen the clinching of a new peace accord with Israel, the worst anti-Palestinian Authority riots ever in the West Bank, the attempted slaughter of 40 Israeli schoolchildren, another botched bombing of a Jerusalem market and the issuing of unprecedented threats against his life. All this for the sake of a peace agreement that most Palestinians think the Israelis will not honor anyway. Arafat has always led a dangerous...
Arafat came out of the negotiations at Wye Plantation three weeks ago a happy man. For the Palestinians, the main issue had been how much more of the West Bank Israel would turn over to self-rule. Though Palestinian officials, who currently practice limited autonomy in 30% of the West Bank, thought they deserved another 30%, Arafat, as part of a strategic decision to get closer to the U.S., agreed last spring to an American compromise: 13%. Though ideologically opposed to withdrawing from any part of the West Bank, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of the right-wing Likud, finally...
Illegal immigration was one route that Jews took to Israel, while others worked on a diplomatic level...
More Jews were turned away from Israel and sent to detention camps. Jewish extremists stepped up their bombings of British buildings...
...movie ends with the passage of the United Nations' partition plan passed in 1947. Israel declared itself a Jewish state, and the war for Israel's independence began...