Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that public figures such as Representatives Barney Frank (D.-Mass.) and Joseph P. Kennedy II (D.-Mass.) are taking positions on the Cambridge ballot question calling for a Palestinian state, organizers on both sides say that the race is heating...
...campaign season is upon Israel, and it is politics at its worst: a steady diet of demagoguery, diatribe, distortion and plain dirt. The Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories, now in its eleventh month, has crowded out pocketbook issues and focused Israeli thinking on the far more emotional themes of peace and security. In that sense, the Nov. 1 election is nothing less than a referendum on Israel's policies toward the occupied territories. Likud asserts a territorial imperative that cedes no ground to the Palestinians; Labor is willing to negotiate territorial compromise in exchange for peace. Each side accuses...
...Palestinian uprising turns the Nov. 1 vote into a referendum on policies toward the occupied territories. The Labor and Likud parties hope the ballot will grant them a divorce. -- Ferdinand Marcos is indicted on U. S. racketeering charges. -- In Afghanistan rebel leader Ahmad Shah Massoud girds for a showdown with government forces. -- Yugoslavia' s crisis deepens as politicians squabble...
...that excludes parties deemed racist or antidemocratic. But in a campaign marked by mounting anger and violence, more and more voters are deciding that the proliferating splinter parties on both the extreme right and left offer something irresistible: a clear-cut, dramatic solution to the eleven-month-old Palestinian uprising...
...allowed to run, public opinion polls suggest he could win as many as three seats in the 120-member Knesset. Voters disillusioned by the two major parties also have 25 other alternatives, ranging from Communists to colonists. Some want to annex the West Bank; others propose an independent Palestinian state. The leader of a religious party called SHAS promises God's blessing in return for a vote, while another candidate is a former convict jailed for tossing a hand grenade into the Knesset in 1957 and wounding David Ben-Gurion. The Yemenites' Union and the Politeness Party reflect rather specialized...