Word: settlers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trial points up the emergence of a new kind of zealot: the West Bank settler who feels that the best way to fight Arab violence is with Jewish violence. The vengeful cycle began in May 1980, when Arabs ambushed and killed six Jewish settlers in the city of Hebron. One month later, two car bombs went off on the same morning, severing both legs of Mayor Bassam Shaka'a of Nablus and blowing off part of the left foot of Ramallah Mayor Karim Khalaf. Every few months fresh blood was shed: a settler would die after being knifed...
With the collapse of colonial rule in Angola, Mozambique, and the white settler government in Rhodesia, the time for change in South Africa began running out. The constitutional reform, if passed today, will not weaken the anti-apartheid struggle for long. Already the African National Congress (ANC), a movement dedicated to the anti-apartheid struggle, has stepped up bomb attacks on South African military holdings...
...voters the reasons Washington won in the first place. He has 20 years of a shining political career behind him and all the proper local qualifications. Born in the city's Cook County Hospital, he graduated from Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable High School (named after the city's first settler, who was Black) and Chicago's Roosevelt University and finished eighth in his Law School class at Northwestern. The factors that built him his solid Black support are not going to go away. And for Byrne and other party-jumping Democrats, busily throwing a loser's tantrum, their bigoted view...
...front to the author's picture on the back, the book is singularly devoid of anything new in the way of facts, valuable impressions or lucid argument. It comprises 167 pages of maundering glop whose gloppishness ought to be abundantly evident to the most fanatical West Bank settler as well as any bomb-chucking PLO member, provided both have a half a frontal lobe in working order...
...Yamit, where 1,000 families lived until recently, a group of settlers gathered around a bonfire one night last week to sing, dance and, in the words of one resident, recapture "the special atmosphere that prevailed here for so many years." One settler, a Soviet immigrant, cried, "Our Prime Minister is a traitor, our Defense Minister is committing treason!" In the main square, once known for its clean, green landscaping, graffiti had appeared on the walls: "No to exile and wandering, yes to fatherland and freedom." Sand dunes, pushed by the wind, were already attacking the town from all sides...