Word: palestinian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Security Council condemned the deportations, contending that they violated the Geneva Conventions. The expulsions also threatened the Middle East peace talks. In fact, warned the P.L.O., the Palestinian delegation will quit negotiations if the deportations are not reversed. Israelis and Palestinians in the territories are bracing for more trouble. Hamas has sworn to avenge the deportations, a likely trigger for another heavy Israeli reaction...
...Palestinian-American, I was offended and saddened by Markel's flip suggestions that Harvard model its behavior on that of the Israeli defense Forces...
...Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are responsible for completely razing tens of Palestinian villages, shooting and killing or maiming hundreds of innocent Palestinians, including children, destroying thousands of Palestinian homes in acts of collective punishment, beating innocent Palestinians of all ages, physically and sexually torturing Palestinian prisoners and daily humiliating and terrorizing Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza...
...lack of success of negotiations with the other Arab delegations. I don't feel that Syria is ready for a full-fledged peace and a peace treaty that will stand on its own. Many Israelis wonder how Syria can be involved in the peace negotiations while allowing rejectionist Palestinian organizations with headquarters in Damascus to call for the Palestinians to withdraw from those negotiations. Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control...
...interested in a square inch of Lebanese soil or a cubic meter of their water. The problem there is security -- the absence of a Lebanese government that can control its sovereign soil and prevent terrorist acts against Israel. Jordan cannot have a separate peace without solving the Palestinian problem. That makes the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and the Israeli-Syrian negotiations the two key questions. With Syria we have a partner, and a boss who makes decisions. To what extent Assad is ready for real peace is questionable; nobody discloses all his cards at the start of a negotiation. With...