Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue again. HAMAS, an Islamic resistance group, last week called for a general strike in the West Bank that for a time seemed to threaten the reopening of some schools. Still, human-rights advocates were cautiously optimistic that Israel's move would presage a softening of its attitude toward Palestinian education. "We are delighted," says William Lee, a spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which cares for Palestinian refugees. "Our main problem now is to make up for lost time...
Arguing that the basic proposal was still intact, Shamir called Labor's impending withdrawal "misguided." Labor leader Shimon Peres countered that "there is no reason to remain in the government," but invited Shamir to "retract" the appended conditions, which include barring East Jerusalem's 140,000 Palestinian residents from participating in the elections. The Bush Administration signaled its irritation by reviving talk of an international peace conference, an option repellent to Shamir. In a New York Times interview, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, called the Likud stipulations a "deadly blow," but he did not torpedo the plan...
...afloat, but each move served only to further sour relations with Israel. When Washington passed word that it hoped the Israeli government would remain intact, Labor leaders denounced the bid as a "gross interference in Israel's internal affairs." When the Bush Administration described as "senseless and tragic" a Palestinian attack on % an Israeli bus two weeks ago that resulted in 14 deaths, Israeli officials were furious that the U.S. had not denounced the act as terrorism. And when a U.S. official implied that Israel and the P.L.O., using American intermediaries, had engaged in secret contacts, Labor and Likud responded...
...diplomatic theory, its charm remains irresistible: the intifadeh is a blessing in disguise. A rising spiral of violence and economic dislocation will propel Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization to concessions deemed impossible before the Palestinian uprising began in December 1988. Get a peace process going, reason the U.S.'s Middle East savants. Any process. Get the parties a little bit pregnant, and there will be no turning back...
Israel's intercommunal war is steadily escalating. As in Lebanon, vigilante violence strikes innocents engaged in the most prosaic activities. As a result, people on both sides of the conflict have come to feel that even their individual survival hangs in the balance. Those who contend that the recent Palestinian attack on a bus full of civilians could be something other than a foretaste of future horrors are urged to recall that after 18 months of sticks and stones, the intifadeh command last month instructed its followers to "kill a settler or a soldier for every martyr of our people...