NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/misc/activism/progress/9440

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From: CHRISTOPHER HOBE MORRISON <[e-mail]>
Subject:  RE: URGENT: Expulsion of 400 Palestinians
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        By the time you all read this it may be over.  The BBC and AP reported
the Supreme Court had approved the expulsions.  They reported that a caravan
of buses had departed carrying the deportees into the security zone in
Lebanon, and then split up.  They also reported that the Lebanese government
had given orders that the deportees were not to be allowed to enter Lebanon
accross the border, which is where the Israelis are said to be taking them,
the Bekaa Valley.  The BBC is talking about the possibility that they will be
stranded in a sort of limbo, not allowed into Israel or Lebanon, and it is
very cold there are raining.  There has been quite the stir on the Israeli
left over the expulsions, and the Palestinian delegation is threatening to
leave the peace talks.  It remains to be seen if they will actually do so.
The reaction of the Arab states has not yet come in yet.  Bill Clinton has
issued a sort of middle of the road statement in which he says he understands
how the Israelis feel about Hammas but that he doesn't think it is worth
disrupting the peace talks over (that is my interpretation, I haven't had
a good look at the text yet).

                                                Chris Morrison
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