Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year, when twelve pages of the State Department's survey were devoted to the "substantial increase in human rights violations" by Israel in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The report sketched a picture of excessive force by the Israeli army, resulting in "many avoidable deaths," against the Palestinian uprising. This account of shootings, beatings, imprisonment and deportation is the most critical U.S. review ever of Israeli actions in the territories...
Last week Shamir said that the Israeli army would withdraw from "several urban centers" in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip once the 1.7 million Palestinians living there accepted limited autonomy. Then, Shamir said, Israel would pursue direct negotiations with Arab states and elected Palestinian "representatives...
Shamir's sneak preview, however, offered nothing really new. Palestinian autonomy and negotiations on a final settlement five years later are ideas drawn from the 1978 Camp David accords, and Arab leaders, except Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, have adamantly rejected them all along. Nor are any leaders suddenly likely to embrace such a peace plan, especially now that the P.L.O. has launched its own diplomatic initiative...
...peace negotiations. All these hints appear designed to achieve two things: pre-empt any peace proposals from the Bush Administration that might entail U.S. pressure on Israel -- though there is no sign that any proposals are being seriously considered -- and lob responsibility for rejecting peace talks back into the Palestinian court...
...Prime Minister's belated attachment to Camp David is particularly curious since he originally denounced the accord as a sellout to the Arabs and abstained when it was approved by the Knesset. Moreover, pushing provisions that Palestinian leaders are sure to reject puts him all the more out of step as he unfurls his peace initiative...