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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: The Palestinian National Council voted Wednesday to remove clauses calling for the destruction of Israel from its charter. The 504-54 vote is a major victory for PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, who won clear backing to continue peace negotiations with Israel despite the Israeli's closing of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. TIME's Jamil Hamad reports from the West Bank that anti-Israel sentiment is running high in the wake of Israel's closing of the two Palestinian areas after a string of suicide bombings in February and March. "The economy is in very...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: The Palestinian National Council voted Wednesday to remove clauses calling for the destruction of Israel from its charter. The 504-54 vote is a major victory for PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, who won clear backing to continue peace negotiations with Israel despite the Israeli's closing of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. TIME's Jamil Hamad reports from the West Bank that anti-Israel sentiment is running high in the wake of Israel's closing of the two Palestinian areas after a string of suicide bombings in February and March. "The economy is in very...
...speakers are well-known apologists for Israel. While terrorism is vile, and must be condemned by all, the two speakers seem to hold the view that terrorism is innate to Palestinian character or society. Prof. Dershowitz links "the legitimization of terrorism" to the "legitimization of the legitimization of the PLO by the world community." The implication is that the PLO, and by extension, we presume, Palestinians, are the barbarians at the gate, to be held back, as in the past, through force. To turn a blind eye, however, to the misery that the state of Israel has inflicted...
Dershowitz also focused upon the issue of terrorism, calling the legitimization of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) by the world community "a terrible mistake...
Dershowitz attacked the Palestinian authorities for their hypocrisy in condemning Islamic fundamentalist terrorism when the PLO has yet to retract clauses in its covenant calling for the destruction of the state of Israel...