Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is no peace in the Middle East as yet, it certainly is not solely the fault of Israel. The Palestinian record of refusal, not only to negotiate with Israel but even to recognize it, is a known fact. It is also a fact that the P.L.O., which is unanimously viewed as the representative of the Palestinian people, has never abandoned its goal to destroy Israel as formulated in their charter. In addition, the young Palestinians who are rebelling against the Israeli occupation have reiterated, time and again, that their goal is the recapture of the whole land of Israel...
...United States against her ally in order to impose a solution, without pressuring the Arab nations, or the Soviet Union, to do the same for their ally. That is grossly unfair, and it plays into the hands of the annexationists on the Israel side and the rejectionists on the Palestinian side...
Eight I.D.F. personnel have been arrested, as well as eight civilians. Files have reportedly been opened on 200 suspects. Ze'ev Schiff, a leading Israeli military commentator, said the "enormous stress" on the I.D.F. from so many wars, intensified by lengthier reserve duty during the nine-month-old Palestinian uprising, may have weakened the willingness of some Israelis to / serve. In the past, when the I.D.F. discovered cases of forged medical records, most of the culprits were trying to get into elite units by concealing disqualifying ailments...
...under the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, which forbids the transfer of residents from a territory occupied during wartime. Whitehead's rebuke, however, is unlikely to sway Israeli officials, who have already deported 33 alleged troublemakers in what they contend is a legal effort to quell the eight-month-old Palestinian uprising...
Though the arrests dealt a blow to Fatah's organization in the occupied territories, the uprising showed no signs of letting up. Last week's rioting, the worst in six months, left three Palestinians dead, including a nine-year- old Arab girl, and some 300 injured, many of them from beatings. The Palestinian death toll after nine months of unrest...