Word: palestinians
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Speaking on the White House lawn, Mubarak denounced the policy change as a "rash" attempt to "usurp the rights of Palestinian people in their country and on their land." A day later, State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter lambasted the Israeli policy as "contrary to the spirit and intent" of the Camp David accord...
...latest flap added to a summer of strained U.S.-Israeli relations. Washington is annoyed by Israel's policy of beefing up civilian settlements in the occupied territories and by its air and artillery attacks-using U.S. equipment-on Palestinian bases in southern Lebanon. At week's end, Palestinian sources in Beirut claimed that Israel had launched an armored strike into southern Lebanon in retaliation for a terrorist bombing in Jerusalem that killed two Israelis and wounded 42 others. The Israeli high command denied that it had mounted any such attack. Despite the forced resignation of U.N. Ambassador Andrew...
...similar invitation was extended to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, president of People United to Save Humanity (PUSH), who expects to visit the area this week. The wily guerrilla leader clearly expected that the P.L.O. cause would benefit from the S.C.L.C. delegation's support for the creation of a Palestinian homeland and from its visits to villages and refugee camps in southern Lebanon that Israel had destroyed in retaliation for terrorist attacks...
Moreover, Arafat hoped to demonstrate that the U.S. was in part responsible for the deaths of many Lebanese and Palestinian civilians killed in the Israeli counterattacks. Thus the P.L.O. guides who escorted the civil rights leaders on a daylong inspection of camps and towns near the Israeli border repeatedly stressed that the widespread devastation had been wrought with weapons "paid for with U.S. tax dollars." Seeing the American equipment, said the Rev. Walter Fauntroy, an S.C.L.C. official who is also the District of Columbia's nonvoting representative in Congress, was "shocking and disturbing. We just hope that...
Basheer, a close friend and adviser of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, emphasizes that an eventual peace settlement between Israel and the Arabs must be fair to both sides. That means, Basheer said, that the final agreement should include provisions allowing the creation of an independent Palestinian state in occupied Israeli territory...