Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...creating enough heat for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, a federal advisory panel now wants to abolish the troubled agency, dividing its duties between the State and Justice departments. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani continues to escalate his feud with the INS over its release of a Palestinian asylum-seeker who last week was charged with plotting a terrorist bombing in Brooklyn. Police sources say evidence includes a note threatening a series of attacks on American and Jewish interests. Meanwhile, Congress is embracing the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform's proposal to abolish the INS, as state officials...
...traditionally kept its battle at home and aimed only at Israelis," says Hamad. "In the last year, though, Hamas activists have begun to talk about hitting American targets as well." The reason: U.S. financial support of Yasser Arafat. Hamas sees him as a corrupt traitor who is selling out Palestinian interests to the Israelis. Hamas continues to deny any link to the apparent Brooklyn plot. But Palestinian security officials think the two suspects could be members of a new group, financed by Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, which takes its orders from Hamas or another Islamist group. With Hamas' popularity...
JERUSALEM: Yasser Arafat may be useless in the eyes of both Israelis and Palestinians, but the U.S. still believes "he's the best show in town," TIME's Dean Fischer reports. "Placed next to alternatives like Hamas, he looks very good indeed." The way Israel sees it, if Arafat can't rein in militants on Palestinian territory, its troops are more than willing to do it for him. And while Palestinian officials blast that threat as paramount to a "declaration of war," the wobbly Arafat government is no shape to put up much of a fight. Outraged by Hamas violence...
JERUSALEM: Hamas is claiming responsibility for the worst terrorist attack since Benjamin Netanyahu became Prime Minister. At 1:18 PM local time, a pair of bombs tore through a busy outdoor produce market in Jerusalem, killing 14 people, two of them believed to be Palestinian suicide bombers, and wounding 150 others. Police and soldiers immediately surrounded the market, ordering stores closed while they searched for more bombs. The attack came just one day before U.S. envoy Dennis Ross was scheduled to return to Israel in yet another effort to move peace talks forward. President Clinton announced that he would postpone...
RAMALLAH, West Bank: A panel of Palestinian legislators has called for the heads of Yasser Arafat's entire Cabinet after finding plenty rotten in the operation of the would-be state. The probe, initiated by the state comptroller's office, also recommended that three ministers stand trial for diverting $1.5 billion in contributions from international donors and mismanaging the Palestinian autonomy government's $800 million annual budget, often for personal gain. Arafat's spokesman punted, claiming that the findings simply justified plans for a Cabinet reshuffle. Hold on there, cowboy. "The mismanagement starts from...