Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...light of Glen Schwaber's letter to the editor (April 11), the Society of Arab Students (SAS) would like to clarify our ongoing attempts to present the Palestinian perpective of the current uprising against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...view our campaign as "Anti-Israel." Our focus has been against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, not against Israel's existence as Mr. Schwaber implies. Our posters quite clearly call for nothing but an end to U.S. support of the Israeli occupation. The Palestinian death toll printed on our posters refers only to those killed in the uprising in the occupied territories, and the photographs of Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians depict scenes only from the Israeli-occupied Arab lands, not from within Israel itself...
Last week the government took the strongest action yet to hobble the messenger. Determined to deal firmly with the widespread protests called to mark Palestinian Land Day without the usual glare of publicity, the army banned all foreign reporters from the occupied territories for three days, except for a dozen pool reporters accompanied by the military. Said I.D.F. Spokesman Colonel Raanan Gissin: "We know the presence of the press incites and instigates the violence...
...villages by soldiers waving pieces of paper that said CLOSED MILITARY ZONE. Photographers and television cameramen especially have been subjected to a campaign of intimidation. On Jan. 27, members of a CBS television crew were attacked by troops in the Gaza Strip after they filmed soldiers beating a Palestinian youth. On Feb. 5, two foreign photographers driving in the West Bank were startled by a senior I.D.F. officer pointing an automatic weapon at them and shouting, "Stop! Stop! I am going to kill you!" Cameras have been smashed and film confiscated. Israel's Foreign Press Association estimates that nearly...
Shultz presses on with his Palestinian peace plan. -- Noriega shows he is still the boss. -- In China, two speeds ahead for reform...