Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Meisel-Jabal, a village of 6,000 Shi'ite Muslims in southern Lebanon, one mile west of the Israeli border, the last units of the Israeli Defense Forces departed for home last week, 91 days after they had invaded Lebanon. The Israelis turned over the fight against Palestinian terrorists in the region to the 6,000-man United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and 700 skilled Lebanese Christian troops, who are backed by hundreds of local militiamen scattered throughout the area...
...Palestinians complain bitterly about cultural oppression as well. As a people, they have always prized literature and the arts and kept high standards of literacy and education. In private, students angrily equate Zionism with Nazism. They note that books referring to Palestinian culture or nationalism are censored, and that residents of the occupied territories are hindered from receiving publications from Arab countries. Literary censorship, however, is quixotically enforced, and examples of a powerful new Palestinian literature-plays, novels but most notably verse, circulate freely in the West Bank. Inevitably, the themes of the writings reflect a yearning for freedom...
Israeli officials frequently speak of the settlers as living in peace with their Palestinian neighbors. In fact, these pioneers have relatively little contact with Arab villages near by. Palestinian farmers do come to some settlements to barter fruits and vegetables, but closer contacts are shunned by both sides. When one Arab approached residents at Karnei Shomron, near the 1967 border, and asked if he could send his child to the community's day care center, they said no, on the ground that it would set a dangerous precedent...
...desolation of the past and the anguish of living memory that all sense of trust has been eradicated. Many Jews today are tormented by the past, troubled by the present, fearful of survival in the future. Asked about the occupation, they respond that it is benign, that the Palestinians never had it so good, that anyway Israel would not be an occupier if the Arabs had not compelled it to fight. In the end, they ignore the problem. They turn their eyes from Palestinian troubles and finally talk about something else. A history of four wars, of almost daily terrorism...
...Only five days before the scheduled withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon, 150 Israeli commandos, using boats and helicopters, last week hit a Palestinian camp at Aaqbiye, six miles south of Sidon. The Israelis claimed that the attack was aimed at a terrorist training camp; sources in Lebanon suspected that the raid was retaliation for the recent bombing of a bus in Jerusalem, in which six people were killed. Death toll in the attack: five Palestinian soldiers, at least six Lebanese civilians, and two Israelis...