Word: palestinian
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Even while seeking friends, Rabin and Barak never shirked from striking enemies hard. Barak likes to call it "killing the mosquitoes while draining the swamp," and his army packed a powerful swat. To suppress the Palestinian uprising against occupation, he sent undercover units into the West Bank and Gaza Strip to hunt down underground leaders; human-rights groups called them death squads. To quell terrorist attacks, he supported the 1992 deportation to Lebanon of 415 Palestinian Hamas militants, a harsh collective punishment that inflamed international opinion and was in time reversed. In 1993, as part of Israel's unavailing struggle...
...crowds he bored audiences with stiff pontifications. Commentator Larry Derfner wrote in the Jerusalem Post that Barak came across as a "potato," an impression that stuck. When the candidate finally did blurt out something sexy, it was a gaffe: he said that if he'd been born Palestinian he probably would have joined a terrorist organization...
...Palestinian health professionals now have a new solution to their chronic shortages of medical equipment and supplies: filch the stuff from Israel. According to a senior doctor in the West Bank, criminal gangs are offering their services to Palestinian medical centers--asking what items are needed and furnishing them cheaply after robbing Israeli facilities, which, because of higher budgets, are generally better outfitted. A Jerusalem pharmacy was robbed two weeks ago of medicines worth tens of thousands of dollars. The thieves left the narcotics on the shelf and took mainly antibiotics and fertility drugs, both scarce in the Palestinian territories...
...Labor politician, a new soldier-statesman, is now in charge in Israel -- but the world shouldn't hold its breath waiting for a brave new era of Israeli-Palestinian peace. Ehud Barak's resounding victory in Monday's election is certainly grounds for hope, but only if tempered with a measure of caution. "Such optimism is based more on the assumption that the peace process is better off without Benjamin Netanyahu than on an understanding of who Barak is," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "Barak is very hawkish. He's not an enthusiastic peacenik and, as military chief...
...Ississ discussed the history of Israel as seen from the Palestinian perspective. He said Israelis have driven 750,000 Palestinians out of their homes...