Word: palestinian
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...week ago today, The New York. Times reported the kidnapping of Nachshon Waxman, an Israeli soldier, by members of Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group. Right underneath, another article revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin and PLO leader Yassir Arafat would share the Nobel Peace Prize...
...Hamas was a true representative of the Palestinians' best interest and not of their irrational emotions it would join the political process. By joining it would be doing the greatest and most effective service to the Palestinian population. --Einat Wilf Chair, Harvard Students for Israel
P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat made a conciliatory -- and politically risky -- gesture, ordering the arrests of 300 Islamic Hamas activists, supporters of the militant group threatening to kill a young Israeli soldier by tomorrow if 200 Palestinian prisoners aren't freed. The move, in fact, brought threats from a top Islamic leader whose own house was raided. He said the crackdown would only spur further attacks on Israelis. Rabin, unmoved by the display, threatened to halt the Palestinian autonomy process entirely and even send a strike force into Gaza if Arafat can't save the hostage; whether his life will...
...four kilos of TNT, the culprits? The Argentine authorities, who have desperately paraded a line of dubious Mideastern suspects before the anxious public since July, are keeping these arrests off the front page, says TIME Buenos Aires reporter Carl Honore. The investigating judge has switched his sights from the Palestinian Liberation Organization to Iranian embassy officials to Lebanon over the summer, under pressure to produce results. "This has become almost a farcical soap opera, going in so many directions that everybody's confused," says Honore.BTW...
...days after the Smithsonian released its third Hiroshima script, Elie Wiesel was speaking in Washington at the new U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He was addressing 120 teenagers from five Middle Eastern countries who had spent a summer session at a Maine camp in the "Seeds of Peace" program. A Palestinian boy in the program minimized the Jews' Holocaust under the Nazis and said bitterly, thinking of his own people, "There are many holocausts...