Word: plo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...condone. Israel's role in buttressing the racist South African regime (See Noam Chomsky's The Fateful Triangle) Secondly, the recent tensions between Reverend Jackson and American Jews are of little importance to his campaign. We challenge Hirschorn to deny that Reverend Jackson's attempts to talk to the PLO and his advocation of a Palestinian homeland had made a target for the animosity of most American Jews long before the 1984 presidential campaign. Moreover, despite Hirschorn's presumptuous opinions, the American Jewish community is not, and never will be, so all-important that bad relations with it can nullify...
...associated with BALSA, is especially shocking, in light of Black Americans long and bitter experience with racist victimization and brutalization. It is hard to believe that Mr. Kenyatta's and BALSA's knowledge of this experience is so shallow and unsophisticated that they could transform the occasion of the PLO's UN representative's talk into one of the vilest assaults on the norms of fairness and free speech to occur at Harvard in many years...
...last five years, Black leaders, led by Jackson, have moved to support the beleaguered PLO and the outlaw with a heart of gold--Arafat. Jackson's outspoken support for the PLO prompted Nathan Perlmutter, director of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, to publish the now infamous 19-page critique of Jackson's politics, distributed widely to Jewish opinion-makers. Perlmutter and others have harped on remarks, attributed to Jackson, that he is tired of hearing about the Holocaust and equating the PLO and Israel, Jackson now denies the former, and calls the latter...
...more skeptically. Since 1977, when the Likud won the elections and took over, Israel has gone through some severe changes. It has become hard-hearted and less attentive to its real needs and to reason. There was a time when Israel was ready to negotiate with members of the PLO, as long as they didn't publicly wave their identity. But in recent years, the Likud government has made consistent efforts to delegitimatize the PLO and its leader Yassit Arafat. After the PLO left Beirut in 1982, the Likud government believed, and so declared, that the PLO was exterminated once...
...argument is based on his contention that Israel's isolation is her own fault. He seems to feel that Israel, having been attacked by the combined weight of the entire Arab world three times during her short existence, and having been plagued by the hateful PLO, should now cease her defensive arms build-up, and try to understand and negotiate with a group of countries which have yet to even recognize her existence. If she does not then she is, according to Mr. Kurzman, obstinate (the term most favored by the press to describe Israel is "intransigent," which somehow never...