Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel, the rash of ruined oranges constituted both a new kind of Palestinian attack and a potential economic disaster. The $172 million annual orange export trade is one of the country's major sources of foreign exchange. Israeli growers insist that the injecting took place at shipping centers in Europe and not at the groves themselves; their hypothesis sounded more and more reasonable as first Spanish and then Moroccan oranges, which move through the same European distribution system, displayed the same mercury traces. The Jerusalem Post sarcastically attacked the Palestinians: "They now send their freedom fighters to stab?...
Both leaders, though, have a low tolerance for presumed insults. Before recalling Kamel, Sadat had been angered by the ill-advised toast at a Jerusalem banquet during which Begin indirectly compared Palestinian demands for self-determination to Nazi expansionism during the '30s. Begin was outraged by anti-Israeli criticism in the Egyptian press that struck him, and many of his countrymen, as antiSemitic. "Even if the devil, the angel of death, would come to [the Israelis]," said one Cairo paper, "they would bargain with him over every minute detail." In an even uglier charge, another declared that "the dream...
...principles. In fact, Kamel, Vance and Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan had considerably narrowed the language gap before the Egyptian delegation was ordered home two weeks ago. Still to be resolved, however, was the phrasing of the item involving the nature of a West Bank-Gaza Palestinian entity. The Egyptians favor the words used by Carter at his meeting with Sadat in Aswan last month: recognition of "the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people." The Israelis have accepted the phrase that the Palestinians have the right to "participate in the determination of their own future." Begin has proposed...
...certainly did. His ten-minute speech turned into a near tirade as he insisted that Israel would not go back to the "fragile, breakable, aggression-provoking and bloodshed-causing lines preceding the fifth of June 1967." With mounting fervor, Begin turned to the subject of self-determination for the Palestinians. "That wonderful concept of self-determination," he said, "was misused in the late '30s, and as a result of that concept, disaster was brought upon Europe, upon the world ... May I state: let never again that concept be misused, because we remember the late '30s and the result of that...
...principles to provide that light." What sort of principles? "Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories, with minor rectifications on a reciprocal basis on the West Bank [since borders there are cease-fire lines rather than logical boundaries], Arab sovereignty over East Jerusalem, the right of return or compensation for Palestinian refugees, and the placing of West Bank and Gaza occupied territory under international auspices until the inhabitants could exercise self-determination...