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...violence quickly spread, Defense Minister Moshe Arens barred all 1.7 million Palestinians from entering Israel. Arens had intended to enforce calm and appease public opinion, but he also threw Israel's division along the pre- 1967 borders into sharp relief. Faisal Husseini, a Jerusalem-based Palestinian leader, even welcomed the ban as "the first step toward independence." In Jerusalem, Israel's dream of peaceful coexistence was refuted by the stifling presence of 2,000 police...
...exposed to a deadly hail of stones, the police resorted to live ammunition. Said police commissioner Yaacov Terner: "Their lives were in real danger. They had no other way but to respond the way they did." As further proof that the riot was premeditated, Israelis note that Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini -- later jailed for incitement -- was in the crowd...
...Palestinian version. That morning, Faisal Husseini and a few thousand other Palestinians had gathered on the Temple Mount to defend the Islamic shrine from a group of ultra-nationalist Jews, called the Temple Mount Faithful, that planned to lay a cornerstone on the site to prepare for a third Jewish temple. Despite an Israeli court order banning the group from the site, Muslims were unnerved. As rumors spread that the Jewish radicals were approaching, Palestinians began shouting slogans. When police replied with tear gas, Palestinians retaliated with stones. The police then charged onto the Temple Mount, went berserk and gunned...
...There is a lack of understanding about the dictator mentality," said Northeastern University junior Ayad Faisal, a member of the Boston chapter of Citizens for a Free Kuwait...
...Americans don't understand Hussein," Faisal said, "They have never experienced a dictator...