Word: tunnels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems that Israel's current Prime Minister Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu has a very strange conception of causality. His comments earlier this week that the outbreak of violence in Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip were unrelated to Israel's opening of a tunnel in the old city of Jerusalem are a fine example of Orwellian logic...
...dialogues will address the tensions that have arisen from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to open an archaeological tunnel for tourists that abuts a site considered sacred by Palestinians...
...While the timing of the opening of the tunnel, on Netanyahu's part, was not the wisest, that in no way excuses the violence initiated by the Palestinian rioters on Israelis," Segal said. "I was shocked that for the first time, Palestinian police fired on Israeli soldiers, but also I appreciate the Palestinian police's efforts yesterday of controlling rioters...
America seems to have a fascination with the underdog--at least when the underdog isn't urinating on its own soil. So when the Palestinians erupted in bullets and stones against the authority of the State of Israel this week in outrage over the completion of a tourist tunnel, they garnered much sympathy from the American press and pundits. (The fretting of the State Department was but its manifest agony at the breakdown of an imperialist grand plan...
...grievances of the Palestinians with regard to the tunnel should not have been aired through violence. Like cultural minorities in other nations, Palestinians should attempt to resolve disputes within the confines of constructive dialogue. Israel has the greatest interest in peace and would rejoice in the harmonious co-existence of the two peoples. But how can there be a legitimate peace when the minority faction refuses to adhere to law and abstains from the Israeli social contract...