Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JERUSALEM: Reeling from Thursday's triple suicide bombing that left four Israelis dead, and an Hizbollah ambush in Lebanon that took the lives of 11 Israeli crack troops, Israel appears ready to make good on its threats to invade Palestinian-ruled territory to root out Islamic militants...
Bravo to Charles Krauthammer for asking why Israel should continue to negotiate with the Palestinians who utilize terror and violence [ESSAY, Aug. 11]! Someone finally has the nerve to tell it like it is. Let the U.S. send a message to Yasser Arafat that neither we nor Israel will deal with him or any other Palestinian until he controls the terrorists and ends their attacks, suicide or otherwise. ALLEN SOKOLOFF Bensalem...
...AVIV: Just as the two peace partners are pulling back from the brink of conflict, Israel has been angered by a display of Holocaust denial on Palestinian television. A cultural affairs show, aired last week, featured a claim by the host that that the Jews "exaggerate what the Nazis did to them," and profit from it by inflating the number of victims. David Bar-Illan, a top adviser to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, replied: "It is regrettable that an official outlet of the Palestinian Authority has stooped to Holocaust denial, coupled with an allusion to Jewish venality and greed...
...images of Bethlehem schoolgirls suffering the effects of an errant tear-gas cannister certainly didn't help. And then the Vatican complained that pilgrims couldn't visit Jesus' birthplace. So although Israel maintains that the bombers are still inside and that protests were motivated by Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority, they have decided to cut their losses and skip town...
...Palestinian President, who is seeking to regain credibility in the wake of corruption charges, is not going to have an easy time uniting his people. Hamas continues to demand that Arafat release prisoners arrested after four 1996 suicide bombings...