Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...road to peace leads through a renunciations of violency by both sides, whether that violence be shooting rubber bullets or throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails. Looking beyond villages in the West Bank, nowhere in the referendum is there a call for the Palestine Liberation Organization to renounce its unceasing terrorist activities against Israel, activities which have resulted in the deaths of countless civilians from Israel, the Arab nations, and the United States. We are not attempting to justify Israel's actions; however, any viable solution to the situation must address Palestinian actions as well...
Quayle's first instinct to avoid answering a "hypothetical" question was right. He simply lacked the presence of mind and the knowledge to squelch that hoary journalistic dog. What did the reporters have in mind -- a President dying of a lingering illness, downed by a terrorist missile in Air Force One over the Mediterranean, resigning because of scandal? A Vice President's response would be different in each situation...
Second, I am disturbed that this referendum implies that responsibility for peace rests solely in the hands of Israel. It ignores both the history of the situation (the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem by the Jordanians) and the repugnant terrorist tactics employed by the PLO. But history can only do so much; it may explain why Israel justifiably occupied the territories, but it cannot exonerate Israel's present government-sanctioned atrocities...
Last week a Lebanese terrorist group released a picture of three American hostages playing cards with a fourth hostage, an Indian professor, and said it would let them go if the U.S. would support the nine-month-old Palestinian uprising in the Israeli-occupied territories. Though that demand is patently unacceptable -- should terrorists conclude they could change American foreign policy by taking hostages, the kidnapings would only increase -- it differed considerably in tone from earlier threats to kill the captives. Another terrorist group freed Rudolf Cordes, a West German businessman, two weeks ago without exacting "any political price...
...part, this is a sensible policy. A compassionate nation must always probe for any opportunity to win freedom for any of its citizens held hostage. But substantive negotiations with terrorist bands would only swell their prestige and seem to legitimize their bloody operations. Thus the U.S. is fully ) justified in negotiating only with the sovereign governments that back terrorists, even though that policy may result in dragging out the captivity of the hostages for agonizing months. Accounts differ as to how much control Iran has over the Muslim extremists in Lebanon. West German experience indicates that it is strong...