Word: palestinians
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...have to make a moral and intellectual judgment on someone who compares Jews to Nazis," Peretz said this summer. "This is not a matter of someone being just pro-Palestinian, a legitimate public position. When [Gore] saw this, he had to make a decision...
...Israeli settler trying to take down a Palestinian flag in an Arab elementary school set off a violent clash today between Palestinians and Israelis in Hebron. "This is a scary and mean situation right now," reports Sam Allis from Jerusalem. "The Israeli government's hands are virtually tied. They can't get the settlers out of Hebron voluntarily, and it would be political suicide to force them out. Hebron is holding up the peace talks." Today's violence came on the second anniversary of the Israeli-PLO accord, signed in Oslo in 1993. Hebron is the main obstacle between Israel...
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has argued that the respite from attacks that began in April was the product of stricter security measures by Israeli and Palestinian officials. Since January, both have cracked down hard on Hamas, making hundreds of arrests, sharing intelligence as never before and even conducting joint operations against the group. Israeli authorities had always doubted that Yasser Arafat, now the head of the Palestinian Authority that governs the self-rule enclaves in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho, was really willing to suppress the militants, but his actions this year have tended...
...hoping that they will be able to conclude the talks in September.) Second, Hamas leaders had expected that during the cease-fire, Ara fat's forces would stop harassing them, but this was not the case. And last, despite the relative quiet, Israel continued to clamp tight restrictions on Palestinian day laborers, ignoring objections from the Authority. That took some of the onus for economic hardship off Hamas. "The Palestinian masses realize now that it's not Hamas' attacks that cause their suffering," says "Faris," a Hamas guerrilla in the West Bank, "but the racism of the Israeli government...
Hamas had its own reasons for a pause. In reaction to the suicide bombings, Israel had placed tough restrictions on Palestinian laborers entering the country each day for work, thereby causing massive unemployment in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. "As a result, the man in the street began to believe the military operations were responsible for his sufferings," says Ghazi Hamad, the editor of the Hamas newspaper al-Watan, which Arafat shut down three weeks ago. Public support is critically important to Hamas. Formed in 1988 as an offshoot of the pan-Arab Muslim Brotherhood, it is committed...