Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrorism against the Israelis, and in fact a minor wave of violence continued throughout the week. In Jerusalem, for example, a grenade exploded in an open-air market, injuring a score of Israeli shoppers. Citing recent terrorist activity, the Israelis staged two military strikes against Palestinian bases in southern Lebanon...
...objections to the creation of an autonomous Palestinian "entity" on the West Bank: Jerusalem is excluded from the area in which Begin offers self-government. This "greater Jerusalem" amounts to one-fifth of the West Bank. Then there are the Jewish settlements, which take more of our land. Therefore the offer of self-government under these conditions does not appeal to us. Jerusalem does not belong to any of us; it belongs to hundreds of millions of people around the world...
...Sadat's determination to negotiate a West Bank agreement with or without Hussein's cooperation: Let him try if he wishes. But the future of the West Bank and Gaza is not for Sadat to decide or for me or anyone else except the Palestinian people...
...Brock called Billy's remarks a sign of "disgusting antiSemitism" and added that "to some extent each of us is his brother's keeper." The chagrin in the White House ran deep. Libya is a repressive nation and sponsor of terrorism from the Japanese Red Army to Palestinian guerrillas. Our other troubles in the Middle East are bad enough without this new burden...
...with what they had seen in other countries undergoing conflict and change. For Rome Correspondent Roland Flamini, the turmoil at Tehran's Inter-Continental Hotel vividly recalled for him two weeks in 1970, when he was trapped in the Inter-Continental in Amman while Jordanian troops fought with Palestinian guerrillas. Says Flamini: "The first two people I met in the [Tehran] hotel lobby had also been in Amman. We talked about whether or not we should fill our bathtubs in preparation for another siege that would cut off our water. We concluded such a move was premature but could...