Word: sincepalestinian
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...when members of the militant group Islamic Jihad unceremoniously threw the PLO chairman out of the Gaza mosque where he was attending the funeral of 35-year-old Hani Abed, an Islamic Jihad leader killed Wednesday in a car-bombing. The murder was the first major act of violence sincePalestinian self-rule began in May. The reception: Mourners knocked off the PLO leader's headdress, shouting "Arafat is a collaborator," and shoved him out a back door into the rain. Many Palestinians blame Israel -- and, by implication, Arafat -- for the killing, despite no evidence and Abed's strained history with...
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