Word: israel
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...international politics, hard-liners on opposing sides tend to reinforce each other's stubbornness and influence, especially in times of tension. Consider the interaction between Baghdad and Jerusalem. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's Likud government is hoping that Iraq's conquest of Kuwait will make it easier for Israel to retain possession of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...civil-rights leader called for worldwide condemnation of the Iraqi invasion, which he compared to the West Bank's occupation by Israel and South Africa's domination by a white minority...
...talk with reporters, Jackson, who has been a strong supporter of Palestinian independence, rejected Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's demand that Israel withdraw from the occupied territories as a precondition for Iraq withdrawing from Kuwait...
...foreign journalists are worried that Palestinian Arabs, who have long suspected that some reporters were in the pay of the Israelis, will now mistrust all newspeople. In response, the Foreign Press Association in Israel issued a public statement last week noting that it was "deeply concerned" by the disclosures, and saying that "journalists who are paid by the Israeli government, directly or indirectly, are discrediting the entire press corps . . . ((B))y accepting payments from the Israeli government ((they)) are taking sides in a story they are covering . . ." The whole episode is sure to make it harder for honest reporters...
Critics claim that under Bradlee's successor, Leonard Downie Jr., the paper that broke the Watergate scandal has lost its acerbic flair. -- Israel pays reporters to write progovernment stories...