Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking before an audience of about 450 people, Prince Al Hassan bin Talal called on the U.S. to develop "practical approaches" to the Middle East conflict that would recognize the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) as a legitimate representative of Palestinians...
...vehicle for Palestinian sovereignty, he said, might be found in the Israeli proposal for elections in the West Bank and Gaza, but these will be effective only if Israel honors all results, allows international supervision of voting and guarantees candidates freedom to campaign...
...until such proposals are finalized, said Al Hassan, Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza must live in constant turmoil...
Last week, in a test of strength between Palestinian activists and the Israeli army, the underground leadership of the intifadeh banned Gazans from working in Israel for two weeks. The strike was called to protest the army's latest method for controlling troublemakers: a computerized ID card listing any previous criminal charges that all Gaza men aged 16 to 60 must now carry. The army says about 65,000 of the cards have been issued; Palestinians claim to have confiscated and destroyed thousands of them...
Defiance like Mohammed's is only one crack in the facade of Palestinian unity. In the first 17 months of the uprising, nearly 50 Arabs were shot, beaten or hacked to death by fellow Arabs for collaborating with the Israelis; since May, that number has doubled. In fact, many are believed to have been gunned down to settle private accounts and labeled collaborators posthumously. Nonetheless, many Palestinians are appalled by the brutality, prompting an appeal in the latest leaflet from the uprising "not to eliminate collaborators without a decision by the leadership, and not before he is given a chance...