Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nickname has stuck, but the embarrassment has not. Tarazi now hopes to spend his life working for the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), most likely as a publicist in this country...
...describes his choice as natural for a Palestinian--like going to Washington for an American. "It's like, you go and work for your government...
...unrealistic vision of a greater Israel," Baker urged. Security interests could be satisfied, he said, by a settlement based on U.N. Resolution 242, which requires secure and recognized borders for Israel. For a change, Baker presented Israel with a U.S. wish ^ list: "Forswear annexation. Stop settlement activity. Allow ((Palestinian)) schools to reopen. Reach out to the Palestinians as neighbors who deserve political rights...
Arafat's statement nonetheless provoked a predictable outcry from Palestinian radicals. "We shall show Arafat and the world that the P.L.O. charter remains very much alive," said George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In the past two weeks gunmen in Lebanon assassinated Bassam Hourani, a commander of Arafat's Force 17 security arm, and launched attacks on two other Arafat aides...
...issue here, however, is not the Palestinian uprising. The dilemma surrounding "Rage" is about our freedoms to express and hear what indeed might be inane, might be unbalanced, might even be wrong. That we may be offended is merely the price we pay for having freedom of expression...