Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Declaration divided the land that is now Israel into two parts, one Israeli and the other Palestinian. In an attempt to stop the establishment of even a small Israeli state, the Palestinians, with the help of other Arab nations, initiated the war that eventually lost the Palestinians their land. With their subsequent incorporation into neighboring countries, the Palestinians became stateless and rightless...
...deaths of thousands of Palestinians at the hands of the Jordanians in a three-day period in 1970 was hardly documented in the same American newspapers that now condemn the deaths of dozens. But the guerilla war in Jordan must have formed a large part of Palestinian political consciousness, bitterness and, yes, "hatred...
...Israelis, now in control of the West Bank, may not have behaved with their customary prudence and respect for human rights. But to hold the Israeli army completely responsible for Palestinian disenfranchisement does an enormous disservice not only to the Israelis, but to the Palestinians, who stand little chance of international support if Israel does relinquish control...
Surely Jordan, Egypt and Syria, which have severely restricted the rights of their Palestinian residents since 1948, would not be more tolerant neighbors than Israel, which offers citizenship to the Palestinians within Israel proper...
...secret who holds Terry Anderson. Imad Mughniyah is his name. He is a 38-year-old Lebanese leader of the Shi'ite fundamentalist group Hizballah whose history of terrorism is grislier than the record of Palestinian renegade Abu Nidal. Mughniyah's villainy, U.S. officials say, runs from bombings, like the suicide attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut, to hijackings. He is a prime suspect in the U.S. for his alleged role in the 1985 skyjacking of TWA Flight 847 in which a Navy diver was murdered. And he has made a specialty of kidnaping: U.S. officials...