Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ahli Arab Hospital in the Gaza Strip last week, wounded Palestinian protesters jammed the emergency room. After unsuccessful surgery, Abdulatif, 26, fingered the yellowing gauze wrapped around his left leg. Still lodged deep in his left thigh was a plastic bullet, Israel's latest ammunition against the ten-month-old intifadeh (uprising) by Palestinians in the occupied territories. Abdulatif pulled aside the bandage to reveal a reddish silver dollar-size hole in his flesh. Explained a nurse: "There is no difference between plastic and real bullets. They both enter the body and destroy...
Also during the late 1970s, Kalb said, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat began to capitalize on media interest in Palestinian discontent after Arab terrorism first attracted reporters' attention...
...Israel, which had always been seen as David against the Arab Goliath...began to be seen as Goliath...a sophisticated, modern, deadly, heartless machine against baby-kissing Palestinian leaders," Kalb said...
...position of the main opposition party, Labor, is not fundamentally different. Labor's slogan in the 1984 election read: "NO: no return to the '67 borders, no removal of settlements, no negotiations with the PLO, no Palestinian state..." In March of this year, Labor leader Shimon Peres--commonly represented as the most "dovish" of Israeli leaders--unequivocally stated his absolute refusal to negotiate with the PLO: "I object completely to any dealings with...
...these grim facts, the rabbis' letter is thin in commentary. While there are no totally innocent victims in the tragic Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is Israel which dominates and oppresses the Palestinians, not the reverse. There is no possible justification for Israel's heinous actions, and the rabbis do a great disservice to all involved parties by obscuring and implicitly excusing them. Robert Weissman '88-'89 Jaron Bourke...