Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DAUGHTER Rana, 17, is shy and not keen on throwing stones, but she is pleased that other young Palestinian women have joined the confrontations. Rana spends her days reading books of philosophy and poetry. Like all youngsters in the occupied territories, she has missed a half-year of formal education because the Israelis shut down government-run Palestinian schools as collective punishment for the intifadeh. Her mother keeps her inside the house for safety and to help with housework...
Hard-line politics has become Adel's life. He dropped out of high school, and says he has no time for marriage. A dedicated nationalist, he will settle for nothing less than an end to Israel and the establishment of a Palestinian state in its place; he is furious that Yasser Arafat is talking about recognizing Israel's right to exist. "If Arafat asks the Palestinians to stop the intifadeh, we will show him the back of our hands," Adel says. "I am willing to sacrifice. I am convinced that we are going...
...P.L.O., the timing could not be more favorable. The meeting will come only a week before the first anniversary of the Palestinian intifadeh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. That uprising, more than any other event, has thrust the Palestinian issue to the forefront of the international agenda. Just as repressive Israeli measures altered some perceptions about the Palestinians and generally bolstered international sympathy for their cause, Shultz's refusal to grant a visa put Arafat in the headlines and renewed debate on whether the U.S. should acknowledge the P.L.O. as the sole representative of the Palestinian...
...General Assembly decides to provide the P. L. O. chairman with a pulpit in Geneva, the U. S. comes under political and legal fire. -- A case for opening talks with the P. L. O. -- One Palestinian family' s struggle demonstrates why the intifadeh burns on and on. -- A flicker of opposition introduces democracy to a session of the Supreme Soviet. -- Italy' s great heroin scourge...
...intifadeh has served to moderate P.L.O. goals, because the residents of the occupied territories who are involved in the uprising are more willing than exiled Palestinians to accept coexistence with Israel. In addition, the longevity of the intifadeh has underscored the difficulty of continuing to defer the Palestinian question...