Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fairly certain that Bush will continue dealing with the Palestinian Liberation Organization in its search for a solution to the Middle East crisis, experts say. And one Harvard professor says he would not expect Bush to discontinue Reagan's policy of "constructive engagement" with the apartheid regime of South Africa...
...occupied West Bank. Nothing since the 1982 war in Lebanon has eaten into the heart of Israel's most revered institution, the Israel Defense Forces, as the past 14 months of bitter war against children and stones has done. Seemingly impervious to Israel's iron fist, the Palestinian uprising rages on, and that is exacting a price from the I.D.F. measured less in injuries than in anguish. The army faces not military defeat but moral erosion, and its troops, the young men of Israel, find themselves charged with an impossible task: end the intifadeh but be humane; solve the Palestinian...
...this unwinnable war are already being felt. Middle-aged reservists trained to fight against tanks and grenades now chase children through the rubble-strewn alleys of refugee camps. When the taunts and the stones become unbearable, they open fire. "I don't feel that I'm fighting against Palestinian terrorists," says a 28-year-old reserve captain on duty in the West Bank. "My enemy is a twelve-year...
Probably the most vocal calls for harsher measures come from the Jewish settlers in the territories, who have increasingly become the main target of Palestinian stones. For months the 70,000 settlers, who claim the West Bank as their biblical right, have complained that the army is failing to protect them. When Shamir started to speak at a memorial service this month for two Israeli victims of the intifadeh, mourners yelled, "You are doing nothing!" Nor did the new battle order satisfy the settlers, who have demanded such extreme reprisals as shooting all stone throwers on sight. "For them...
...unlikely that a new state will improve Palestinian-Israeli relations and, based on most rhetoric of the Palestinian liberation movement, it would probably endanger them. But there is no alternative...