Word: palestinian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest to see him, John Paul showed his intellectual side, his 61-minute speech ranged over a variety of topics tied together tightly by sequential reasoning. The headline-catching bits ? an assertion that overall peace in the Middle East must include "a just settlement of the Palestinian question," a call for a "special statute" to assure the preservation of Jerusalem as a city holy to the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths ? were really incidental notes...
...missiles near the Nile and the Suez Canal, and at least 15,000 Soviet combat personnel were in Egypt to operate and defend the sites. Despite the growing danger of an Egyptian-Israeli war, however, the biggest blowup of 1970 occurred in Jordan. Twice in three months, Palestinian guerrillas tried to assassinate Jordan's King Hussein. When the King's troops began retaliating against the fedayeen, it looked as if the Soviet-backed regimes of Iraq and Syria might intervene. To complicate matters further, guerrillas hijacked four foreign airliners in early September and directed three of them...
...prominent West Bank mayors visiting Washington for a two-day conference on Palestinian rights scarcely encouraged that hope. Fahd Qawasmi of Hebron and Karim Khalaf of Ramallah told their American audience that Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza overwhelmingly support the P.L.O. "as our representative" and would refuse to deal with Israel until they regained sovereignty over their ancestral lands...
While the West Bank mayors were lobbying for the Palestinian cause in Washington, the P.L.O. received a boost from U.S. Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson, off and running on a self-styled Middle East peace mission. Sparks flew from the moment Jackson arrived in Jerusalem, where Premier Menachem Begin snubbed the black activist because of his sympathy for the P.L.O. Said Jackson: "Mr. Begin's refusal to meet me represents a rejection of blacks in America, their support and their money...
Touring a Palestinian refugee camp north of Jerusalem, Jackson worked the UPI streets like a politician on the hustings, kissing babies, hugging women and praying for the redemption of Palestine. "I identify with the underdogs because I am one of the underdogs," Jackson told the refugees. In the city of Nablus, on the Israeli-occupied West Bank, he was greeted with glad shouts of "Jackson! Arafat!" and hoisted on the shoulders of several...