No.28・29 November-December,1987
The Other Israel Newsletter of the Israeli Council for Israeli - Palestinian Peace November-December 1987 No 28/29* Editors: Adam Keller P.O.B. 956 Tel-Aviv, Israel 61008 Editorial Board: Uri Avnery, Matti Peled, Yaakov Phone: (03) 659474 Arnon,Haim Bar’am, Yael Lotan, Yossi Amitai FROM AMMAN TO GAZA On November 8, the leaders of the In recent weeks, public attention and two other Palestinians were shot Arab states met in Amman, capital centered, in particular, on the Gaza to death. The official statement of Jordan. The summit’s most impor- Strip - an area which provides an claimed that the Palestinians were tant result was a definite warming up extreme example of the Palestinian “killed while trying to escape”; of the Arab world’s relations with plight. It is a narrow strip of land, detailed research by Israeli journa- Egypt. This was expressed in a hemmed in between Israel and lists exposed contradictions in the resolution permitting Arab states to Egypt, between the desert and the government’s line, pointing to the renew their diplomatic relations sea. In 1948 hundreds of thousands possibility that they were shot down with Cairo, broken off after Camp of refugees, uprooted from their in cold blood (Koteret Rashit, David. By November 19, the tenth homes in what became the State of October 14, 1987). anniversary of President Sadat’s Israel, were added to Gaza’s original Another incident occurred a week memorable visit to Israel, many population. Due also to a high birth- later, on October 8. As described in Arab states have already taken rate, the Gaza Strip became the the official communique, Israeli advantage of this possibility.
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