Word: palestinians
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Second, he seems to doubt that the heads of the P.L.O. are the legitimate "leaders" of the Palestinian people. This is also untrue as votes and polls have shown between 60 and 80 percent of Palestinians support the organization...
Third, he theorizes that the Palestinian leaders have resisted Israeli attempts to provide the Palestinians with better housing so as to have a steady supply of "dirty and deprived young boys to send on suicide missions inside of Israel." This is too simplistic. Most Palestinian refugee camps are outside of Israel's borders and Israel has only offered to house a fraction of them-hence helping to explain the existence of these refugee camps in the first place...
SHIPLER'S THESIS is that "both people are victims." True. But what he doesn't seem to understand is that the cycles of violence and animosity which have made victims of Palestinians and Israelis have their source in the betrayal of the Palestinian people by other Arabs and their own leaders...
Shipler is also on very shaky ground in asserting parallels between Arab and Jewish terrorism. Violence is fostered by most Palestinian leaders--at least those who wish to stay alive--and is accepted by nearly all segments of Palestinian society. Violence by Jews is committed by fringe elements and is deplored by nearly all Israeli leaders...
...Amal against turning the pilot over to Syrian forces in Lebanon. Amal Leader Nabih Berri, who had helped arrange the release of the 39 TWA hostages in June 1985, was expected to use the captured pilot as a bargaining chip in his efforts to free some 250 Lebanese and Palestinian guerrillas believed held in a jail near the border by the Israeli- backed South Lebanon Army. In Tel Aviv, the Israeli army's chief spokesman, Brigadier General Ephraim Lapid, delcared, "We will not rest until we have recovered the missing man." The events in Lebanon almost overshadowed the bloody terrorist...