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Reading The West Bank Story, we follow Halabi and his camera crew as they criss-cross the region. In Ramallah, thousands of angry demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags surge down the main street protesting the Israeli occupation. When a patrol of Israeli soldiers arrives, it is greeted by a barricade of flaming tires and a barrage of stones In Hebron. Jews from a nearby settlement roam the streets, machine guns in hand, smashing the glass from Arab cars and shop fronts In Nablus, Israeli bulldozers demolish 20 Arab houses in retaliation for a bomb blast at a Jewish shop. In Elon...
...technically they are not children of war?not of war as it is fought in Belfast, Nahariya, Ramallah, Beirut, or in the jungles outside Phnom-Penh. There are no gun battles or street riots in Viet Nam any more. One side has won, one has lost; and the children of the losers have the choice of "re-education," hunger or the sea. The children of Viet Nam have known war, and they have also known the consequences of war. They thus offer an opportunity to pose the one question that has been hovering over all these children, which...
...Israeli charges against Abu Eain were based on the testimony of Jamil Yassin, an admitted member of the Palestine Liberation Organization who was arrested for a string of bombings, including the Tiberias explosion, in June 1979. Israeli soldiers found in Yassin's home in Ramallah what one Israeli security officer described as a "bomb factory, pure and simple." Yassin confessed that he built the bomb and recruited Abu Eain to plant it in Tiberias. Yassin was sentenced to life imprisonment, but Abu Eain had already fled Ramallah to visit a sister in Chicago. Israeli officials asked...
...before Federal Magistrate Olga Jurco in the fall of 1979, Yassin had repudiated his testimony and insisted that Abu Eain was not involved in the bombing. Abu Eain, moreover, produced affidavits from a dozen friends and relatives, who swore that at the time of the bombing he was in Ramallah, a two-hour drive from Tiberias. Jurco nevertheless ruled that there was "probable cause" to believe that Abu Eain may be guilty; in effect, she held that the conflicting evidence should properly be aired in an Israeli court. The judge also ordered that Abu Eain be held without bail...
...soldiers trying to control the demonstration fired first in the air and then, when this brought no response, at the girls' legs. One 1 7-year-old girl was hit by a bullet from an automatic rifle. Next day, six students in the adjacent town of Ramallah and four more at Bethlehem University were also wounded, one of them seriously, in similar incidents...