Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Likewise, to make a realistic effort towards Mideast peace, we should negotiate with everyone possible, including the PLO. If we really want to end violence in the Mideast; we cannot shut our eyes to the Palestinian problem nor with their organizations away...
...Bisharat seems not to see this, for he argues that Israel, fearful of peace with the PLO, sought to wipe out this increasingly viable negotiating partner. It is clear that the Begin Government is not exactly enamored with the prospect of co-existing with a Palestinian state on the West Bank, but then, let us fairly note, the PLO is equally (if not more) hesitant about accepting Israel as a neighbor. Neither is ready to negotiate, but Israel loses little by delay. The PLO, on the other hand, in refusing to cease calling for Israel's destruction, demonstrates that...
...honor the ceasefire agreement in the face of Israeli provocations. The PLO was perfectly aware that it was doing so under the watchful eye of the U.S.--one of the few, but obviously crucial, nations in the international community which has persisted in failing to recognize the legitimacy of Palestinian national aspirations, and the role of the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. What would have been threatened by such recognition was not Israel's security, but rather the sanctity of America's illusions about Israel and the Palestinian--illusions which have been necessary to rationalize...
...occasion during the 10 months or so prior to the Israeli invasion on which Palestinian gunners had fired across the border had been preceded by an Israeli air attack on the Palestinian camps of Rashidiye which claimed some 15 lives. The Israeli attack was spurred, it was said, by the deaths of two Israeli officers, which occurred when the jeep in which they were traveling ran over a land mine--in South Lebanon. The Palestinian retaliatory shelling had been intentionally directed into agricultural fields in afterwork hours. The Palestinian deliberate decision not to inflict casualties, and their clear desire...
...course of the invasion itself belies the charge that the Palestinian forces had developed any serious challenge to Israel's security. That a lightly armed, badly outnumbered force could threaten an army equipped to the teeth with the latest in sophisticated American weaponry is a claim that only a fool--or someone with a vested interest in distorting reality--would make...