Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American initiative, largely based on the moribund 1978 Camp David plan calling for an interim period of Palestinian autonomy, telescopes the earlier agreement's five-year time span into a matter of months. The Reagan Administration's newfound sense of urgency was clearly inspired by the latest Palestinian uprising. The U.S. was also prodded into action by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who in Washington two weeks ago promoted a plan calling for a six-month truce and the convening of an international conference. The Administration combined some of Mubarak's suggestions with elements of previous proposals into what Secretary...
...soldiers face that moral dilemma daily as they struggle to carry out a policy enunciated three weeks ago by Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin of using "force, strength and blows" to put down the rioting. Since then Israeli soldiers have wielded boots, batons and rifle butts against hundreds of unarmed Palestinian men, women and children. Israeli officials noted that the policy is far more humane than the earlier approach of using live ammunition against the rioters, which left slightly more than three dozen Palestinians dead. Though the beatings seemed to bring an uneasy calm to the occupied territories, Israel's image...
...beatings have provided only a temporary respite. Last week fresh waves of violence swept over the West Bank and Gaza. For two days the Casbah of Nablus rang with a harsh tattoo as young stick-wielding Palestinian militants pounded on closed shop shutters and metallic junk barricades. Defying a curfew, the youths, armed with slingshots and iron bars, declared the old, walled portion of the West Bank city to be a Palestinian enclave. Forbidden red-black-white-an d-green Palestinian flags waved from the mosques, the gangs controlled the streets, and the army refused to enter...
...Molotov cocktail lobbed through his car windshield. Fellow settlers responded by rampaging through Anabta while it was under curfew, smashing windows and wrecking cars before Israeli soldiers ordered them away. In the town of Tulkarm, rumors of further settlers' invasions the next day sparked violent protests that left one Palestinian dead. In Gaza, another died of his wounds, bringing the death toll to 43. Defense Minister Rabin angrily called the settlers a "burden" on hard-pressed security forces. But clashes continued throughout the territories, from remote villages in the north of the West Bank to the cities and camps...
...West Bank. "You have to cut out thinking, be strong and do nasty things." To those troops who felt humiliated at having to stand by helplessly while Arabs taunted them, the beatings policy has served as a welcome antidote. Army casualties in the occupied territories have been light, but Palestinian guerrillas from Lebanon, attempting to capitalize on the uprising, killed two Israeli soldiers while seeking to attack Jewish settlements in northern Galilee...