Word: palestinian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Palestinian fundamentalists are a force to be reckoned with...
...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 and the smaller Islamic Jihad are riding the wave of Islamic fervor that has swept much of the Arab...
...nowhere near as notorious as its Arab counterparts for human rights violations, is a military organization. It is a military organization that certainly lives up to every part of its name and will indeed use force in defense of Israel when necessary. Often times it is defending Israel from Palestinians. The results usually make for heart-wrenching, out-of-context, 30 second news clips on American TV. I won't dispute this. However, the Israeli-Palestinian situation is an extremely complex one, with a long history to it. It is not black and white, but rather a confusing...
ISRAELI AUTHORITIES NEVER IMAGINED WHAT MEDIA stars they would make of 415 alleged Palestinian militants when they deported the lot to Lebanon two weeks ago. But celebrities they have become. The Lebanese government refused to grant asylum to the deportees, so the group spent the week shuffling through freezing weather between a checkpoint manned by the Lebanese army and another, three miles away, guarded by the Israelis and their proxy militia, the South Lebanon Army. At least two exiles were injured when the S.L.A. fired warning shots and mortars at the group as it approached Israel's proclaimed "security zone...
...Riley, former Governor of South Carolina, as Secretary of Education, instead of Johnnetta Cole (or so say the leakers). That indicates the President-elect is shying away from people who might face tough confirmation hearings. Conservatives have tried to link Cole, head of Atlanta's Spelman College, to pro-Palestinian and pro-Cuban groups. Retiring Colorado Senator Timothy Wirth is said to have lost his chance to be Secretary of Energy because confirmation questioners might challenge his associations with savings and loans in his state...