Sentence examples for palestinian hostility from inspiring English sources

The use of Israeli troops and of Border Police units in quelling political disturbances in Jerusalem sometimes with great loss of life has exacerbated Palestinian hostility to Israeli rule.

Until 1967 there was no occupation or settlement, but Palestinian hostility to Israel was at least as marked as it is now, and contributed directly to the 1967 war.

FOR years, conventional wisdom has held that as long as Israel faces the external challenge of Arab — especially Palestinian — hostility it will never come to terms with its internal divisions.

Shahar Azani, the Israeli consul for media affairs in New York, told me the issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem "needs to be decided," but he emphasized that the settlements are often used to obscure the real issues, like Palestinian hostility toward Israel.

Over the years, I've asked this question of a number of people across the ideological spectrum: "If Israel dismantled all the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, would it stop Palestinian hostility and violence toward Israel?" I never once got a yes.

Further, as JJ Goldberg recently wrote in the American Jewish newspaper the Forward, "...Voices have been raised in a most unlikely corner to insist that Palestinian hostility to Israel -- including Palestinian terrorist violence -- is at least partly a response to Israeli actions and policies, and not simply a deep-seated hatred of Jews.

Such episodes stud the annals of Israeli-Palestinian hostility: The rules are old and harsh and are unlikely to change any time soon.

The Oslo process had brought a brief lull to 48 years of Israeli-Palestinian hostility, an interim Palestinian state in nearby Ramallah and a promise of something the country had never really seen: normality.

It is not only that Israel's army, largely made up of reserves, is being sapped in terms of manpower and morale, but also that the Palestinians' hostility toward Israel will continue as long as they feel the cities are under siege.

In acknowledging that there is no moral equivalence between terrorists and those who fight them, Mr. Brooks cuts to the heart of the problem with "Munich," and, in fact, with Mr. Spielberg's understanding of Israeli-Palestinian hostilities.

Israel received the two-minute video of Sgt. Gilad Schalit from Hamas militants after it released 19 female Palestinian prisoners earlier Friday in an exchange that is the first tangible step toward defusing a key flash point in Israeli-Palestinian hostilities.