Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth." That could be interpreted as the need for a Cairo-Damascus-Jerusalem federation. Ezekiel 47: 22 could be taken to point out that Israelis have a responsibility not just to Jewish immigrants but to the Palestinian Arabs under their jurisdiction: "The strangers that sojourn among you . . . they shall be unto you as the homeborn, [and] they shall have inheritance with...
Since accounting procedures are haphazard at best, a few Palestinians have succumbed to the tempting rewards of open-collar crime. Two months ago, three P.L.O. officials were tossed into a fedayeen jail for gambling away $250,000 of the organization's money at the gaming tables of Cairo. But as even critics of the P.L.O. concede, most of the Palestinian leaders emulate the ascetic style of Arafat who, despite international renown, dresses in baggy battle fatigues, operates out of a spartan office in a Beirut slum, and indulges in neither whisky, cigarettes nor women...
Expanding Bureaucracy. The largest chunk of the money is still spent on training and terrorist operations; last week a Palestinian bomb went off near Tel Aviv, killing one person and wounding 26. One of the smaller and poorer fedayeen groups, the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, took credit for the incident. But an increasing percentage of the revenues pay for a rapidly expanding bureaucracy. The P.L.O. has opened offices-in effect, quasi embassies-in about 100 nations. Heads of the larger offices in Europe and North America receive around $1,500 a month along with "representation" allowances...
...receive $75 a month, parents $25, brothers or sisters $10 and children $5 each. Since the war, the P.L.O. has founded Samed (Arabic for steadfast), a kind of poor man's conglomerate of 24 factories and workshops in Lebanon that provide jobs for 2,300 disabled fedayeen and Palestinian women. They work at such diverse operations as handicrafts, ready-to-wear clothing, furniture building and film making...
...hostelry under construction in Cairo, shares in shipyards, oil tankers and television stations abroad, as well as blue-chip holdings in U.S. companies that operate in the Middle East. Some of this money has even been used for the quiet purchase of land on the West Bank that local Palestinians might otherwise be tempted to sell to Israelis. These investments have a double purpose: they may make the Palestinians a bit less dependent on the generosity of Arab governments, and they also serve as advance economic underpinning for a future Palestinian state...