Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy: occupation threatens Israel's soul, so Israel should leave the West Bank and Gaza. That is easy enough to accept--but what happens once Israel has left? Ah, there is something else to think about in addition to Israel's internal dilemma: the refusal of a single Palestinian leader to renounce the desire for Israel's destruction. Arafat dances around: "Who will I negotiate with, ghosts? If I say now I recognize Israel, what will I have to bargain with...
Jackson has long been criticized--to use too gentle a word--for his stands against Israeli policy, and his embracing of the P.L.O. But can one look on the events of the past months in Israel, and not think that a Palestinian homeland is necessary, that our silence no longer serves Israel, and that a president who can bring the Palestinians into the peace process may be just the answer...
...stone, who knocked out the first eye or the first tooth. The etiology of the conflict has long since been rendered moot by reciprocal violence and the hardening of mutual hatreds. As read in the West Bank, history comes with a curse. A conversation between Grossman and a young Palestinian teacher in the refugee community of Deheisha...
Elsewhere, the Palestinian lawyer and author Raj'a Shehade refines this sullen fatalism as sumud, a word he uses to express his determination to endure and outwait Israel: "Of the two ways open to me as a Palestinian -- to surrender to the occupation and collaborate with it, or to take up arms against it, two possibilities which mean, to my mind, losing one's humanity -- I choose the third way. To remain here. To see how my home becomes my prison, which I do not want to leave, because the jailer will then not allow me to return...
Yasser Arafat's mainstream Palestinian guerrilla group, Fatah, said in a statement in Beirut that "the driver had an accident and the car crashed into a power pole about 30 minutes before the time set for the bomb to explode...