Word: intifadeh
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Temple Mount riot stripped the conflict to its molten core and convinced many Arabs and Israelis that there is nothing left to talk about. The clandestine leadership of the intifadeh has called for the "liquidation" of Jewish soldiers and settlers, while hard-line Israelis have demanded harsher countermeasures against Palestinians. When a West Bank Arab took revenge by stabbing three Israelis to death in a quiet Jerusalem neighborhood last week, a senior Palestine Liberation Organization official heralded the new "war of daggers." An angry Israeli mob responded with assaults on Palestinians and even Israeli leftists...
...Israel has followed harsh policies in the West Bank and Gaza, particularly in efforts during the past three years to suppress the intifadeh. But its sternness cannot be compared with the tales told by Kuwaiti refugees about looting, rape, torture, beheadings and other summary executions by Iraqi soldiers. That the outside world has to rely on refugees' stories to learn what is happening in Kuwait is itself significant. Reporters and photographers roam the Israeli-occupied territories, albeit with many restrictions imposed by the army, and report what they see and hear; they are not allowed into Kuwait...
...doing his best to pull them into his orbit by exploiting the calamity in Jerusalem. The Iraqi President threatened to avenge the Palestinian deaths with powerful missiles he claimed to have added to his arsenal. Calling his new device the "Stone" (after the weapon of preference in the intifadeh), Saddam boasted that it had a range of hundreds of miles and could therefore hit "the targets of evil when the day of reckoning comes...
...implications, there is a danger that many of their readers and listeners will, at least subliminally, take the point to its invidious extreme: Saddam equals Hitler, ergo Arabs equal Nazis. As a brutalizing corollary, the forces fighting the Jewish state, from P.L.O. commandos to the child warriors of the intifadeh, can too easily appear as agents of a new Holocaust...
...have their hands full. The government has suffered from a particularly bad public image over the years, thanks to such misadventures as the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the settlement of Israelis in occupied territories, stonewalling on the Middle East peace process and the ironfisted, often brutal, handling of the intifadeh. No wonder the Foreign Ministry launched a public relations campaign about a decade ago intended to package for international consumption upbeat stories on such subjects as Israeli science and medicine. Last week it was revealed that the country's legitimate public relations effort has been paralleled by a covert...