Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moshe Levinger and his American-born wife defied the Israeli government to lead a group of compatriots into the city and establish the first Jewish settlement in the newly occupied territories. Years later, when Levinger's car was stoned on a downtown street, he opened fire, killing an innocent Palestinian shopkeeper; he served only 10 weeks in jail for the crime...
Rabin's parliament, which has never before unanimously agreed on the text of a resolution, is composed of parties ranging from the left-wing Meretz, which supports the establishment of a Palestinian state, to the far-right Moledet, whose platform of Palestinians from the West Bank...
Yasir Arafat and other Palestinian leaders have denounced the statements of the Israeli government and the Chief Rabbis as empty rhetoric, and have called for the complete disarmament of all West Bank settlers. It is clear that some settlers cannot be trusted with weapons and must be disarmed to prevent another killing. But the Hebron massacre is without precedent...
Although there have been isolated instances of settler-on-Palestinian violence, these have been few and far between, and their numbers are dwarfed by the number of Palestinian attacks no settlers and Israelis...
...Palestinian must not seek to blame all of Israel for the crimes of one man, but must instead continue to work for peace, just as Israel continue to maintain its course in the face of numerous Palestinian terrorist attacks...