Word: israells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jewish presence in the West Bank," Gazit said. "There are 600,000 free Palestinian citizens in Israel. Why can't there be a Jewish presence in the West Bank...
Gazit stressed the religious and historical importance of the region for the Israelis. "The West Bank is much more the historical Israel than the major parts of Israel today," he said...
...president, the Rev. Joseph Lowery, called a "divinely mandated" attempt to spread the gospel of nonviolence in the area, the S.C.L.C. leaders picked through the rubble of bombed-out villages in southern Lebanon, prayed for peace with Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis, and urged both Arafat and Israel to accept a moratorium on violent attacks. The civil rights leaders clearly learned a lot about the complex politics of the area. But inevitably, their visit also enhanced the status of the P.L.O. And by arguing that the P.L.O. should be invited to join the peace talks, they undoubtedly have added...
...Humanity (PUSH), who expects to visit the area this week. The wily guerrilla leader clearly expected that the P.L.O. cause would benefit from the S.C.L.C. delegation's support for the creation of a Palestinian homeland and from its visits to villages and refugee camps in southern Lebanon that Israel had destroyed in retaliation for terrorist attacks...
...Walter Fauntroy, an S.C.L.C. official who is also the District of Columbia's nonvoting representative in Congress, was "shocking and disturbing. We just hope that on our return the American people will be moved to limit the instruments of war that will be provided to the nation of Israel...