Word: palestinians
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...Middle East proposing peace can be a dangerous move. That lesson was forcefully driven home last week when bitter feuding broke out among Palestinian factions over an unusually conciliatory statement written by Bassam Abu Sharif, chief spokesman for Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat. Abu Sharif's key proposals: 1) direct negotiations between the P.L.O. and Israel over a future Palestinian state, and 2) a referendum in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to prove that their Palestinian populations recognize the P.L.O. as their legitimate representative...
Until he left Tel Aviv for New York City last week, few Americans had ever heard of Mubarak Awad. But the Israeli decision to deport Awad made the Palestinian American something of a media celebrity, with the Reagan Administration firmly in his corner. Conceded an Israeli official: "We shot ourselves in the foot...
Awad, 44, has been an irritant to the Israeli government for years. Through his Jerusalem-based Palestinian Center for the Study of Nonviolence, he has been advocating a campaign of civil disobedience against Israeli occupation of territories captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. An admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., Awad urges, among other things, a Palestinian boycott of Israeli products and Israeli taxes, and destruction of Israeli fences and power lines built across Arab land...
...special party conference, complete with delegate fights and live media coverage, stirs genuine political passions and could advance Gorbachev' s reforms. -- Writer Yevgeny Yevtushenko denounces the Russian tradition of servile patience. -- An I. R. A. bomb kills six British soldiers in Northern Ireland. -- Israel orders deportation of a Palestinian- American gadfly...
Violence nonetheless continues to plague the occupied territories. The Israeli-appointed mayor of the West Bank town of El Bireh was stabbed outside his office last week, presumably by Palestinian radicals who have warned Arab officials against cooperation with the occupiers. A day earlier, a nine-month- old Palestinian girl lost her left eye to an Israeli rubber bullet fired during a clash between soldiers and protesters. Two days later, a Palestinian was killed near Nablus. The six-month toll: more than 200 Palestinians dead, 5,000 wounded...