Word: palestinian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent years many critics have tried to frame Israel's struggle for independence as an exclusive and ruthless attempt to drive the Palestinian people off their land. However, the current attempts to reach a resolution of the Palestinian refugee problem and the current Palestinian-Israeli struggle must not blind us to the fact that the war of independence was not a war waged by the Jews in Palestine against a helpless local Arab population. Israel's war of independence was a war for existence and the events of that war must be placed in that context. Current concerns with...
...controversy has raged for more than four decades about the reasons for the exit of the Palestinian Arabs in 1947-1948. Any attempt to attribute this mass exit to a single cause is only true in part, and therefore false. In part, the Palestinian Arabs fled with the encouragement of their own leaders; in part, it was the policy of the Israeli High Command to secure the evacuation by Arab populations of areas into which the Israeli army entered; in part, the Arabs, unlike the Jews, had somewhere to go if they wanted to avoid the terrors...
While Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion condemned the massacre, Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first president, described the Palestinian exodus as "a miraculous simplification of Israel's tasks." I wonder what "miracle" Mr. Weizmann was referring to. The beginning of life is miraculous; its cruel...
...years after the famous handshake at the White House, four million Palestinians live in the Diaspora, and another two million live under siege in the Gaza Strip and Jericho, or under Israeli military occupation in the rest of the West Bank. Israeli settlements continue to be built on the West Bank, especially around Jerusalem, creating a de facto situation on the ground before any final negotiations take place. Earlier this week, a Palestinian prisoner died at the hands of Israeli interrogators...
...fellow students celebrating the birth of Israel at Hillel, I ask them to pause and consider the past. I ask them to remember the Palestinian people, to whom this "independence" meant, and still means, decades of occupation, dispossession and denial of their basic right of self-determination...