Word: palestinians
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...built in the southern part of Jerusalem aimed at creating an Israeli urban sprawl from Jerusalem to Bethlehem called Har Homa (in Hebrew meaning the Mountain of the Wall)." While more than half of the land on Har Homa is presently owned by Jews, there are several Palestinian villages which would need to be "re-located" in order for the construction of the homes to take place. The Palestinians will not live in these new homes, but the Israeli government suggests relocating the villagers elsewhere. The villagers do not wish to move, as a village leader explained...
Among the Irish, a bardic genius for remembering, the grievances singing in the genes, has kept the kettle of sectarian vengeance boiling since the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Israel became a state in 1948, and for 49 years Palestinian children have gone to sleep to stories of the nakba, the disaster, that destroyed the village, the fig, the olive, the Palestinian Eden from which nakba meant exile. Tribal memory is the plutonium of revenge. The mother shows her son the martyr-father's bloody shirt and sings the song of blood feud: Make them...
...1970s, could be a signal that Syria is finally getting serious about peace with Israel. In raids staged throughout the weekend, Lebanese agents rounded up seven men thought to be members of the terrorist group that first fought American involvement in Vietnam, then moved on to champion Palestinian causes. The group, responsible for an attack on Israel's Lod airport in 1972 that killed 24 people, has hardly been visible since the mid 1980s. With many of its members now in jail or dead, the group is little more than a memory of a time when terrorist hijackings were common...
HEBRON, West Bank: Just before dawn on Friday, life in Hebron changed forever. As crowds of Hebron residents cheered and set off fireworks, a convoy of Israeli army jeeps pulled out of the military headquarters in Hebron. The Israeli and Palestinian commanders shook hands at the gate, and Palestinian police streamed into the headquarters. Hebron, after 30 years of Israeli occupation, was occupied no longer. "This is the happiest day of my life," one officer shouted, flashing a V-sign from inside a window. Within an hour, some 400 Palestinian police had taken control of the prescribed 80 percent...
...report that the United States did not intend to let Israel decide for itself the extent of troop withdrawals from the West Bank. Debate resumed only after U.S. envoy Dennis Ross called each of the ministers to assure them that the report was not official U.S. policy. For the Palestinian cabinet, approval was easy. A final vote count was not made available, but according to Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo, the Cabinet authorized the agreement by a large majority. Under the agreement, Israel is to give the Palestinians control of 80 percent of the Biblical city of Hebron within...