Word: palestinians
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Nerves tightened throughout Israel and the occupied territories last week as government soldiers continued to battle crowds of enraged Palestinian protesters. The confrontation took an ominous turn when the 740,000 Arabs who are citizens of Israel joined their brethren in the occupied territories in a general strike. The United Nations Security Council registered its indignation by voting 14 to 0 to "strongly deplore" the Israeli tactics. The U.S., Israel's most loyal defender, abstained rather than veto the resolution, marking one of the few times the U.S. has failed to back Israel in the Security Council. What particularly upset...
...like the picture of the giant Gulliver entering into a confrontation with dozens of dwarfs when one hand and two legs are tied, and there are declarations all the time that Gulliver is the bully." Shamir's metaphor encapsulated the siege mentality that has overtaken the government since the Palestinian riots began in early December. But to the outside world, it was a distorted portrait of how the battlefield actually looked. As television footage and photographs have made clear, Gulliver has the gun. Last week six more Palestinians were killed, raising the toll to at least 23 dead and hundreds...
Israel's measures drew harsh denunciations from its Arab neighbors. Jordan's King Hussein, on a state visit to Moscow, declared that the riots represent a "natural and real response of the Palestinian people," while Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah professed pride in the "struggle of the brotherly Palestinian people." There were calls for new terrorist attacks from Israel's neighbors. On Friday evening three Arab raiders, members of Abu Abas' Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, heeded that call and crossed into Israel from the upper Jordan Valley. They were apprehended after a brief fire fight...
...degree, the rhetorical outpouring of sympathy for the Palestinians is hypocritical; for nearly four decades, the Arab states have done next to nothing to resolve the Palestinian refugee problem. At the Arab summit in Amman last month, the leaders paid little attention to the Arab-Israeli conflict and virtually ignored the presence of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Last week Arafat, ever the opportunist, gathered P.L.O. leaders for a meeting at their headquarters in Tunis to discuss the possibility of declaring a Palestinian government-in-exile...
Israel's crackdown poses a special problem for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whose country signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. The Palestinian riots tapped a deep vein of anti-Israeli sentiment within Egypt that a decade of peace has failed to dry up. Though Mubarak denounced Israel's "methods of repression and persecution," he resisted pressure from many of his countrymen and other Arab leaders to take stronger steps, including withdrawing his ambassador from Tel Aviv and breaking trade and cultural agreements...