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Article: Report from the Gaza Strip. (Current Affairs).
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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As certain Arab leaders bowed to pressure from the United States, and called on Palestinians to stop the violence, the struggle to liberate the West Bank and Gaza Strip was dealt another blow. By not contextually linking the demands made of Chairman Yasser Arafat with an end to the continued Israeli occupation and violence against the Palestinians, the Saudi, Egyptian and Syrian leaderships were seen, on the Palestinian street as having "caved in" to American arm twisting.
With Israeli tanks still placed deep inside the Gaza Strip and most of the West Bank cities surrounded by the Israeli army, the Arab call to Palestinians to "halt the violence" and implement ...