Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keeping flying sparks to a minimum, Palestinian and Israeli representatives faced off at the Law School last night in a discussion of the past months' riots in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem...
...Jhahsan said the riots are unusually widespread and sustained, and that they have brought about a new unity among the Palestinian factions. "Never before has there been this level of morale and cooperation. It is totally unprecedented," he said...
...Jewish settlement of Kedumim is only about a mile away from the Arab hamlet of Kafr Qaddum in the West Bank. Until now the residents of both rural villages lived and let live. Last week the Palestinian turmoil that has engulfed Israel and the occupied territories came even to this remote spot. As 15 or so Palestinian youths manned a rock barricade across the road leading to Kafr Qaddum, a familiar blue Volkswagen van braked to a halt. Inside were two well-known settlers from Kedumim, Shimon Kav, 41, and Yosef Ferber, 48. The Arab youths say they told...
...uprising entered its third month last week, with eleven more Palestinian deaths, more curfews, more burning tires and even a torched Israeli bus that was set afire by Arab rioters near the West Bank city of Hebron. But the episode in Kafr Qaddum underscored a new, worrisome development: the growing militancy among the 65,000 Jews who live in the land that they call Judea and Samaria but that is better known as the occupied West Bank. Touring Hebron last week, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin denounced the settlers' actions as "destructive." Said Major General Amram Mitzna, regional commander...
...settlers agree with Ben-Yishai. For the 30 Jewish families in $ tiny Dolev, near Ramallah, the Palestinian violence has meant that school buses must be escorted by the military and that most residents strap on a pistol before stepping into their cars. But when some residents of Dolev advocated fighting back, the majority opted to let the army protect them...