Word: khalidi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Controller Andreas Georgiades was impressed by the gunmen's poise. "They were very calm, very cool," he said. "Other hijackers I have dealt with were angry and shouted. But you wouldn't believe these latest ones would kill someone in cold blood." Kill they did, however. Two passengers -- Abdullah Khalidi, 25, and Khalid Ayoub Bandar, 20, both Kuwaitis -- were shot to death and dumped on the tarmac...
...head of the Palestinian delegation was Jerusalem-born Professor Walid Khalidi, a permanent research fellow in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, one of the founders of the Institute of Palestinian Studies, and a professor of Government at the American University in Beirut since 1957. Other Palestinian delegates were scholars and editors from the West Bank, Jordan. Belgium and the University of Tennessee...
Very gently, Prof. Khalidi rejected Saunders' suggestion for U.S. mediation between the Israelis and the Palestinians. "We and the Israelis are the historical protagonists of the conflict We are the direct bearer of the Palestinian problem Reconciliation between us should be our business only, and not the business of a third party, be his intentions as good as could be. No third parts could bring about the beginning of a reconciliation process...
...Prof. Khalidi declared--to the astonishment and relief of several Israelis in the Forum Room that he had no problem in accepting the formula that was presented by Yossi Sarid, in its precise language...
...symposium was also very interesting and encouraging, and above all a reminder that there are still in Israel people who hold the right direction and would exercise it when the time comes. The meeting with some of them here at Harvard was for me, to put it in Prof. Khalidi's words, "a breath of fresh air" and a good hope for a better future...