Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both surprising and sad then to see a lapse in that oversight in a story on tensions in Jerusalem from the Reuters newsservice in last Thursday's paper. Accompanying that story was a photograph depicting a Palestinian Arab youth confronting an Israeli Border Policeman. The caption to that photograph fails to measure up to the Crimson's high standards on two counts...
Second, the caption is at fault for using language that panders to emotion and oversimplifies a complicated issue. By only describing an Israeli Border Policeman violently confronting a Palestinian youth, the caption or photograph does not capture the incident in its totality. It gives the impression that this was an unprovoked act of Israeli-initiated aggression and ignores the presence of the belligerent mob that threatened an apartment compound housing Israeli Jews...
...week even more difficult. "Poor Madeleine is going out there, expected to put Humpty Dumpty back together again," admitted one of her aides, "but it's an almost impossible mission." This was already a major test of Albright's blunt and brassy diplomacy. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat are now so mutually distrustful, so hamstrung by extremist political constituents, that they cannot bear to talk to each other, much less negotiate in good faith. In a situation where toughness and the matching of wills are not always enough, even her most ardent admirers wonder whether...
...Middle East wouldn't wait. Netanyahu's hard-line stands on carrying out provisions of the 1993 agreement and decisions such as the building of a new Jewish settlement in traditionally Arab East Jerusalem enraged and frustrated the Palestinians. Arafat's failure to cooperate with Israeli agents in monitoring and arresting Islamic extremists or to silence the rhetoric of violence that lends their acts legitimacy enraged and stiffened Netanyahu. In the aftermath of the July 30 Jerusalem bombing that took the lives of 15 victims and provoked Israel's punitive response, relations slid down to the level of name calling...
...meant, explains a senior U.S. diplomat, that "she would go to focus on the broader political initiative once we saw progress on the security issues." An Albright visit was held out to the Palestinians as a reward for shutting down the Islamists. That didn't happen, and now, as far as the Israelis are concerned, that's the whole purpose of her trip. "I think she realized that waiting for a sufficient crackdown was not going to suffice," says David Bar-Illan, Netanyahu's director of communications and policy planning. "We want progress on this issue...