Sentence examples for palestinian assertions from inspiring English sources

The Israeli ambassador called Palestinian assertions of excessive force completely unfounded.

Advisers to Mr. Sharon rejected Palestinian assertions that negotiations should resume from the point reached in recent talks with Mr. Barak's government.

Israel rejects the Palestinian assertion that the resolution does not conflict with a return to negotiations.

The pictures, so unequivocally horrifying, became powerful media tools for the Palestinian assertion that the ruthless Israeli military machine was massacring its people.

He reiterated the Palestinian assertion that the demand for a settlement freeze is not a precondition, but an obligation under international law.

And the Palestinian assertion that "there never was a temple on the Temple Mount," and that therefore Israel has no inherent rights there, is perceived as a denial of Israel's national and historical roots.

Is it the Palestinian assertion that the pope's visit to a refugee camp will signal Vatican support for the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their former homes in Israel?

On the contrary, Israeli officials, denying the Palestinians' assertion that a secret US-Israel agreement exists, clearly intend to continue building Jewish homes in occupied East Jerusalem.

They said the soldiers were returning Palestinian fire, an assertion rejected by people in the compound.

And placed uncomfortably within all the games and layering are the bald assertions of Palestinian pain, the talk in the interviews of arbitrary arrests and humiliations at border crossings, and deaths.

Consider, for instance, Professor Sand's assertion that Palestinian Arab villagers are descended from the original Jewish farmers.