Word: palestinian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remind him of the common Arab position--unwillingness to accept Israel's existence even if she with-draws her forces. "Everyoe is affected by goodwill," Mr. Kan'an answers, though he admits that Nasser will not accept Israel's existence until the rights of every single Palestinian Arab are given back...
...Effective Nonuse." Should it succeed, the Schenley takeover would cap a comeback for Riklis, a Palestinian immigrant whose seesawing fortunes have fascinated observers on Wall Street for years. Riklis came to the U.S. in 1947, taught Hebrew and sold stock in Minneapolis until the mid-1950s, when he was struck with what he now calls "the effective nonuse of cash"-or the technique of using borrowed money to buy undervalued companies, whose assets could provide the leverage for still larger takeovers...
...back room of a stucco house in the hills of Amman, a grave young Palestinian university student squatted on the floor and told eleven friends that he had just joined a guerrilla unit to fight the Israelis. "Any age, any size, either sex," he said. "It makes no difference. They are on my land, and I shall kill them." In his shell shattered villa overlooking the River Jordan, Citrus Grower Raouf Halabi, 50, a graduate of Beirut's American University, reported proudly that his riverfront groves have become a nightly jumping-off place for raiding parties into Israel...
...toward the men it calls fedayeen -the Arabic word for freedom fighters. Though he has in the past often declared his opposition to the terrorists King Hussein last week changed his tune, defended 'those who struggle against Israelis occupying Arab territory. But to a population that is 60% Palestinian, 100% Arab-and sick to death of being humbled by Israeli planes and tanks-the fedayeen already have become national folk heroes. Accounts of their successful sabotage missions are headlined in the press. Photographs portraying their martyred dead are plastered all over Amman...
...rest of the Arab world has taken up the fedayeen with nearly unanimous vigor. Iraq and Syria offer training programs for several thousand commandos. The Persian Gulf states, led by Kuwait, raise money for them through a 5% tax on the salaries of their tens of thousands of resident Palestinian workers, and a recent fund drive in Lebanon brought in $500,000 from Beirut alone. So much money is flowing in that fedayeen organizations now guarantee lifetime support for the families of all guerrillas killed in action...