Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...again the world has sadly witnessed the outbreak of violence in the West Bank and Occupied East Jerusalem. But this time it is inquiring about the peace process and what went wrong. What could have Israel done that caused such arousal from Palestinian civilians? The hasty and somewhat surprising answers that have sprouted in the media insist on depicting the Palestinians as inherently violent and as the enemies of peace. In their coverage, some journalists have failed to mention fundamental truths about the real Palestinian condition. Instead, they further the offensive and unjust myths of the Israeli state. The opinion...
...promised me that he was going to implement what was signed before. Nothing happened. I can't understand it. Is this because of differences in his Cabinet? I told him, "Please start implementing the agreements. Start with [Israeli army deployment from] Hebron. Ease the closure [of Israel to Palestinian workers]. This is the only way to make people trust the new Israeli government." Mind you, the Syrians are telling me, "How can you trust this man? Look at what he is doing with the Palestinians...
...ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN TENSIONS...
...Middle Eastern equivalent of a mob of whites torching a black church, killing parishioners and burning its holy objects. Yet, while the tunnel received enormous coverage complete with diagrams, the desecration at Joseph's Tomb, if reported at all, merited at most a few sentences. And a similar Palestinian attempt to firebomb Judaism's third holiest shrine, Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, received in the major American press no mention at all, save one in the New York Times--in a picture caption on page...
...there been a word of condemnation from anyone--outside official Israel and the occasional columnist--for the spreading of the Aqsa blood libel? Indeed, when the tunnel pretext evaporated, the press simply moved on. Retraction? Apology? Hardly. Instead, the press shifted seamlessly to a new explanation--justification--of Palestinian violence: it was a product of "frustration." What kind of rationale is that for murder? Timothy McVeigh was frustrated...