Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...March-April 1992 Harvard Magazine the University's alumni publication Marius authored a review of Helen Winternitz's book "A Season of Stone: Living in a Palestinian Village...
Israel detailed plans for a phased withdrawal from West Bank towns before Palestinian elections this year, provided that PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's government stops militants who oppose peacemaking from attacking Israelis in the self-rule areas. "I think that the Palestinians who enter the cities understand very well that if there will be terrorism, everything that was agreed upon will not stand the test of reality," Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres told a news conference. Peres and Arafat set July 25 as a target date to signthe emerging accord, already a year overdue and one of the key preconditions...
...gorgeous, impastoed melancholy, exhausted the possibilities of human glory and depravity centuries ago. Wiesel's young, all vulnerability and fire, assembled at the other end of history altogether. Furious at what the blackhearted past has done to them, they made friends across their inherited fault lines (Israeli with Palestinian, Irish Protestant with Irish Catholic, for example) and inspected the future with a kind of fervent wariness, a provisional hope...
Freih Abu Middain, the Palestinian Justice Minister, sums up today's situation by saying, "Israel is still our enemy. We have no peace, only procedures for making peace. It may lead to peace; it may lead to war." In the heat of a recent controversy over Israeli land confiscations in the Arab part of Jerusalem, Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini suggested it might be time to renew the intifadeh...
...startling about-face at an emergency meeting, the Cabinet of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin suspended the government's seizure of 131 acres in Palestinian areas of East Jerusalem for the purpose of building mostly Jewish housing. The plan had stirred widespread international protest and threatened Rabin's government with a no-confidence vote...