Word: israell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...declined comment on speculation that Vance tried to persuade the Egyptian leader to send a top-level official to Israel to revive direct negotiations between the two countries and perhaps attend the funeral on Tuesday of former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir...
...Gaza "Strip" was created by the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. It was the only bit of Palestine that the Egyptian army could salvage after fighting ineffectively against the creation of the state of Israel. The Egyptians subsequently used the region as a base for raids into Israel. Those raids ceased after the 1956 war between Egypt and Israel, when Gamal Abdel Nasser agreed to the placement...
...insistence upon keeping Israeli armed forces in the West Bank and Gaza permanently, and Israeli citizens' having a right to settle in the strip. There is also a generation gap among the Gazans while the elders still pine for their old homes in Ashkelon or elsewhere in Israel proper, the young aspire to the goals of an independent Palestinian state...
...rage, however, that binds young and old alike in the refugee camps. Holding on to the reins of his donkey, his shoes caked with slime from open sewage drains, Mahmud Mustafa Magded, 45, shouts: "Camp David, Israel, Egypt, Syria, they're all the same. I want to go back to my country, to Ashkelon...
...even if Gaza finally achieves some kind of self-government, its leaders must still find ways of pacifying the dispossessed who dream of returning to their old homes in Israel. "We will have to provide them with places to live in Gaza to help them forget," says Mayor al-Shawa. "And we will have to convince them somehow that they have not moved away from Palestine, but have merely moved from one part of it to another...