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- <text id=89TT0495>
- <title>
- Feb. 20, 1989: World Notes:Human Rights
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 20, 1989 Betrayal:Marine Spy Scandal
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 49
- World Notes
- HUMAN RIGHTS
- Tough Talk To a Friend
- </hdr><body>
- <p> For 13 years the U.S. has assessed human rights abuses
- around the world. But never has a friend figured as prominently
- as one has this year, when twelve pages of the State
- Department's survey were devoted to the "substantial increase in
- human rights violations" by Israel in the occupied West Bank and
- Gaza Strip. The report sketched a picture of excessive force by
- the Israeli army, resulting in "many avoidable deaths," against
- the Palestinian uprising. This account of shootings, beatings,
- imprisonment and deportation is the most critical U.S. review
- ever of Israeli actions in the territories.
- </p>
- <p> Israeli officials condemned the report as "harsh" and
- "one-sided," but did not dispute the particulars. Instead they
- argued that the U.S. had ignored the "constant provocations" by
- "extremist elements." Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir charged that
- the "media exaggerate" and said that "the behavior of our army
- is equal to that of any other army in the Western world."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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