Word: isreali
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alone. According to TIME's Jamil Hamad, the threatened Israeli crackdown is making the lives of those in the West Bank and Gaza a living hell. "It's clear that a peaceful solution is becoming less and less popular every day because of such policies," says Hamad. Nonetheless, the Isreali government gave every indication today that it was still up for a game of hardball -- by keeping its measures in place indefinitely...
...clear siren just sounded. We take off our masks as army radio announces that multiple conventional Scuds had indeed struck at the "center" and the "north" of the country, a euphamism that every Isreali knew to mean Tel Aviv and Haifa repectively. No report on casualties yet. I am in a state of shock. It doesn't seem real that I could be abruptly awakened in the middle of the night and forced to hide in a sealed room wearing a suffocating gas mask. The Gulf War has come to Israel...
...Subterranean Review writer Imraan Coovadia '91 on the killing of 19 Palestinians by Isreali police last weekend...
...Palestinian kids, the Isreali army was guns, everywhere you go. To the Jewish kids, it was what everyone serves in. And to the Jews, Yassir Arafat was a terrorist. To the Palestinians, he was president. When he reflects on the camp, Springer is ambivalent. "If they gained anything, it was because they were thrown together as friends. But to me it seemed more important to solve the political situation...how much could the camp do when the cousins of these kids were throwing rocks at each other across the green line...