Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student group distributing a series of pro-Israeli posters on campus has added to the controversy at Harvard over the continuing conflict between Palestinian rioters and Israeli troops in the West Bank...
When I heard David Kuttab, an East Jerusalem Palestinian journalist, speak to an already sympathetic Jewish audience here. he hinted that Palestinians would like to negotiate not from the pre-1967 borders of Israel but from the map of the 1947 U N partition resolution. which leaves a much smaller Israel. Never mind that Palestinian notables rejected the U N plan in '47. preferring to let the Arab states attempt to wipe Israel out by war: never mind that precisely those Palestinian figures who recognize Israel in the first place are those the P.L.O rejects...
Moses waffles on the security issue by offering the U N control of a bordering strip between Israel and the Palestinian state. Has he ever seen the area under discussion? There is no room...
Others suggest demilitarizing the Palestinian state. There is no question that that would have to be a first step, but from the viewpoint of Palestinians, demilitarization is a difficult demand to swallow. Independence without an army is still degrading, all the more so for a people so committed in the past to "armed struggle." So, sooner or later, Israel would face a Palestinian army. Until the P.L.O. renounces Israel's destruction as an aim, it seems unreasonable to ask Israel to hand the P.L.O. a state and a base overlooking Tel Aviv (Moses' capital) and Jerusalem (Israel's capital...
Mainly we have to realize that a solution to the problem of Israel and its occupation of Palestinians requires two wills: an Israeli will to face up to the fact that continued occupation is at best a diversion of important energy and at worst a worm in the apple of the Israeli soul; and a Palestinian will to see Israel not as a temporary phenomenon but a permanent and tolerable presence. One will does not do the trick (and don't delude yourselves into thinking the Palestinians have done their part already...