Word: palestinians
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...some of it compassionate, some of it harsh, most of it simply quick. After the worst Arab rioting in the country's occupied territories in nearly two decades, military authorities were determined to make speedy examples of the more than 1,000 demonstrators arrested, the vast majority of them Palestinian males between the ages of 14 and 35. The number of Arab fatalities rose to at least 22 after a 17-year-old Palestinian died of gunshot wounds sustained in one of the riots. The week brought a few fresh incidents of violence, but for the most part an uneasy...
...most serious threat hanging over the Palestinian detainees is deportation, another legacy of British-mandate law. Since 1967 Israel has used that device to get rid of some 2,500 undesirable Palestinians, expelling them to neighboring states with large Palestinian populations. The practice is widely viewed as a violation of the fourth Geneva Convention, which establishes rules for the conduct of affairs in territory seized during wartime. Israel claims to abide by humanitarian provisions of the convention, but its courts have held that local laws supersede the international code on this matter. Said Rabin: "Deportation is part of our system...
...warn him that Washington would be highly critical if Israel went ahead with the expulsions, which the U.S. views as illegal and fears would increase tensions in the occupied territories. But Israel refused to rule out a disciplinary measure that it regards as its single most effective weapon against Palestinian subversion. Said Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir: "We appreciate the American advice, but we will act as we judge best...
...most Palestinians and some Israelis, such contentions represent a profound misreading. In their view, the riots were widely supported and spurred by a generation of Palestinian youth that has grown up under the occupation. These disaffected Palestinians are contemptuous of both the Israelis, who show no signs of ending their rule, and the P.L.O. leaders, who have been ineffectual in challenging it. "We have reached the point where we have nothing to lose," says Gaza Attorney Al Qudra. "It is not important whether we live or die if we do not have our rights...
Meron Benvenisti, a former deputy mayor of Jerusalem who heads the West Bank Data Base Project, an independent research organization, is no advocate of Palestinian independence. But he believes government officials are ignoring reality when they deny there is widespread support for the Palestinian cause. "They're still trying to define it as the work of a small group of agitators," he says. "They can't admit that it's broadly popular because they will not face that problem." A number of U.S. Jews, profoundly disturbed by the riots and how they were handled, agree. Said Hyman Bookbinder, a longtime...