Word: watan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where he was jailed for life in 1989, Sheik Ahmed Yassin told an Israeli Arab lawmaker that the agreement could not be ignored and that he was willing to "give it a chance." The pronouncement came as P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat allowed the previously banned Hamas weekly newspaper Al Watan to resume publication...
...Palestinian laborers entering the country each day for work, thereby causing massive unemployment in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. "As a result, the man in the street began to believe the military operations were responsible for his sufferings," says Ghazi Hamad, the editor of the Hamas newspaper al-Watan, which Arafat shut down three weeks ago. Public support is critically important to Hamas. Formed in 1988 as an offshoot of the pan-Arab Muslim Brotherhood, it is committed to a holy war to liberate not only the Gaza Strip and West Bank but also Israel from Jewish control...