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Article: Arab League Chief Warns of "New Intifada"
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- July 27, 1996
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Secretary General of the Arab League Esmat Abdul-Meguid has warned
of eruption of grassroots Arab uprising against Israel if the Jewish
state put aside the agreements it had signed with Arab parties.
"Now If Israel does not implement all what it has promised, there
will be a new intifada," the Arab League's chief said in an interview
with the local daily An-Nahar, which was published today.
The 1987-91 intifada, in which the Palestinians expressed their
anger by throwing stones, compelled the Israeli government of former
Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to hold face-to-face negotiations
with the Palestinians.
The Arab League chief pointed out that an explosion of the Middle
East situation ...