Word: lebanons
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...Abdul Aziz Rantisi stood in a chilly rain before the assembled crowd of nearly 400 Palestinians who, like him, were banished by Israel to southern Lebanon seven weeks ago. Now, said Rantisi, the group's spokesman, the Israelis were inviting each of them to appeal in person for the right to return. Would they comply? he asked the exiles huddled on a hillside near their meager tent camp. Was there an alternative to their demand for unconditional repatriation? The answer came back crisp and loud...
...editor thought that it would be popular with "young urban pioneer families." The prediction came true; the success of Victoria House encouraged the Shefelmans to write their newest book, A Peddler's Dream. The story is about Soloman Azar, a man who immigrates to the United States from Lebanon in hopes of finding his fortune. After many setbacks, Solomon and his wife Marie establish a fashionable department store in Texas (where the Shefelmans live...
...horrifying one. On December 17, claiming retaliation for the deaths of four Israeli soldiers at the hands of Hamas, Israel boarded 415 Palestinian men onto buses, gave them each 50 dollars, and drove them out of their home country. The Lebanese government refused to allow the men into Lebanon. Israel made no arrangements for food, water, shelter of first aid materials. The deportees were ill-equipped for the cold, and several are suffering from bad health. Two of the deportees were wounded by Israeli gunfire as the entire group was fired upon while attempting to walk back to Israel. Nonetheless...
This should be a somber time for Muslim fundamentalists in the Israeli- occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Over the past three weeks, Israel has deported 415 alleged Islamic activists to Lebanon and jailed 1,000 others; dozens more have been shot in clashes with the army. But far from despairing, adherents of the fundamentalist movement are jubilant. "The Israelis," says a member of Hamas, the main fundamentalist organization, "have done us a big favor. We are the winners in all of this...
Nothing has brought Hamas more attention around the world than the frigid exile of the 415 men expelled by the Israeli government Dec. 17 and since stranded in a wintry patch of southern Lebanon, which refuses to take them in. Their banishment made them heroes in the occupied territories, stirring a sense among followers of the Islamic movement that their moment has come. Palestinian fundamentalists feel that they are on the verge of supplanting the secular Palestine Liberation Organization as the dominant force among their people and as the vanguard in the struggle against Israel. In part, Hamas...