Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip can not merely be summed up as a conflict between Arab and Jew, Palestinian and Israeli. So, when director Jo Franklin-Trout traveled to that war-torn area to present one of those sides in her documentary "Days of Rage: The Young Palestinians," she did not hope to achieve balance. Her goal was to present a view, however one-sided, and to present it accurately...
WHAT did Trout do to have it removed from the airwaves? The TV critics who have seen it say that she has documented the life stories of the young Palestinians, growing up in borrowed land, growing up as non-citizens. It is apparently a violent and less-than-pretty portrait of Israeli rule. This is a story about Palestinian victims and Israeli violence against them...
...Palestinian uprising is now 18 months old. It is a stain on a country whose existence is grounded in protection against totalitarian abuse. If the case for "Rage" is right, then we could all learn something from the public viewing of the film...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir proposed limited elections in the Palestinian territories as a step toward Middle East peace. That is not how the Palestinians there regard it. Last week more than 80 leaders from the West Bank and Gaza issued a statement rejecting the proposal as "a maneuver for the media" designed to sidestep the Palestine Liberation Organization and "ignore our political legitimacy as well as our legitimate aspirations...
Elections would be acceptable, they said, only as part of a defined process leading toward Palestinian independence. The statement was also intended to remind exiled P.L.O. leaders, who had avoided an outright rejection of the Shamir plan in their dialogue with the U.S., not to squelch the uprising without exacting major concessions from Israel...