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...killing was the 32nd death in five weeks of riots and unrest in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, which Israel seized in the 1967 Middle East...
...uprising at Columbia was the work of a minority of student radicals. But it was not an aberration. Around the world that year in cities as widely spaced as Paris and Tokyo and Mexico City and Berkeley, students rose in protest and revolt. The spasms of unrest seemed almost psychologically coordinated, as if a mysterious common impulse had swept through the nervous system of a global generation. The theme of the protests, and of the generation, was . . . what? To challenge authority. To change the world. To take possession of the world. To announce itself...
...question of whether Israel truly understands the root causes of the riots. Rabin insisted the protests were the work of a few organized provocateurs, a view that may be shared by most Israelis. "There were instigators forcing kids to demonstrate, forcing people to close their shops," he said. "This unrest was organized by a few at the local level...
...first dozen days of rioting were confined to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, seized by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Two weeks ago the unrest spilled into East Jerusalem, and last week it spread through several Arab villages and towns in Israel. Some of the worst violence came in the West Bank town of Jenin. After demonstrators hurled as many as 20 fire bombs at border police, the Israelis opened fire, killing two Arabs and wounding seven...
...Shimon Peres as Prime Minister last year, is much less willing than his predecessor to negotiate a settlement. With no prospect of political talks, the people of Gaza and the West Bank are falling under the sway of Islamic fundamentalism. In Gaza last week the mosques helped fan the unrest among embittered young men no longer afraid of becoming martyrs...