Word: israell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization chose to use a French word during a live interview on France's TF1 television channel. At one point, Arafat declared as caduque -- a legal term meaning null and void -- the controversial 1964 P.L.O. charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel...
...easily impressed were Israel's political leaders, who have contended that the P.L.O.'s much publicized recognition of Israel last year is meaningless because the organization refuses to abrogate what is in effect its constitution. Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin told Israeli television that Arafat is still engaging in "pathetic acrobatics...
...Israel's continuing refusal to acknowledge Arafat's olive branch presents him with a growing dilemma. While he had hoped that the start of a U.S.-P.L.O. dialogue last December would result in pressure on Israel, that has not happened...
Chloe Aaron, the WNYC executive who decided to drop the program, condemns the film because it "makes no mention of how the Jews got to Israel, no mention of the Holocaust, no mention of how the Palestinians treated the Jews nor how Arabs treated the Palestinians." But Trout is not responsible for reporting what happened in the past here; she is just documenting a side of the present situation...
...analogy is so loaded that it makes one wonder the intentions of her censorship. It's the same political argument behind claims that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic, that any condemnation of that nation is comparable to Hitler's treatment of the Jews. These arguments are irrational; they trap Israel in its history, rather than allowing it to criticize itself and change...