Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...misrepresentation in Middle East reporting. On September 18, a short article concerning protests and violence in Jerusalem over Israeli construction in East Jerusalem appeared. A few short paragraphs were accompanied by a picture nearly twice the size of the article with a caption reading, "More Hostility in Jerusalem: A Palestinian child screams as an Israeli Border Police officer beats him with a club...
When the whole astonishing affair began, Khaled Meshal didn't even realize he'd been targeted. The Jordanian-based political chief of the radical Palestinian group Hamas was walking from his car to his office in Amman when two pedestrians passed close by. Meshal's driver and bodyguard, Mohammed Abu Saif, though, saw one of the men put some kind of device wrapped in cloth up to Meshal's head. And so Abu Saif jumped into the car, caught up to the two and fought them viciously until a passing police patrol arrested all three. The driver's story seemed...
...didn't he--faint, that is? That was the question surrounding YASSER ARAFAT last week after an Egyptian official leaked word that the Palestinian leader had passed out during a contretemps with the Foreign Minister of Qatar while in Cairo. Arafat's office says no, but a Palestinian official, speaking to TIME, confirmed the blackout, saying Arafat's lips turned blue and his eyes rolled into the back of his head before a doctor came to revive him. The collapse occurred as Arafat tried to convince HAMAD BIN JASSIM that Qatar should cancel a Middle East economic conference to protest...
Some say the Palestinian's bill of health isn't very hopeful. According to an intelligence agency, Arafat has taken to telling close aides that he doesn't think he'll make it to his 70th birthday, two years away. After noticing his trembling hands, some observers believe he has early symptoms of Parkinson's disease. As far as the fainting episode is concerned, a high-ranking aide explains that Arafat, who keeps a notoriously irregular schedule, hadn't slept the two previous nights. But if Arafat, the only leader the Palestinians have known for 28 years, should depart...
...Arafat?s dilemma is compounded by growing dissatisfaction within his own Fatah movement ? two of the recent Jerusalem suicide bombers were former Fatah members who had joined Hamas. So while Netanyahu can survive the debacle by firing the head of Mossad, the Palestinian leader faces a struggle to stop his support hemorrhaging...