January 18, 1981 (vol. 91, iss. 93) • Page Image 4
… response to stones lobbed over the university's surrounding wall. Several unarmed students werewounded in the incident. At Dheisheh refugee camp, I spoke to Arab students and leaders who clearly wanted not…
…; the Jews of Israel have a state they can call their own; the Arabs of Palestine, Obiquit y By Joshua Peck lasting and memorable an impression as the brief time I spent in the-Arab city of Ramallah, a…
…, Ar- menians, British, a handful of Christian sects, and of course, the Jews, both ancient and modern. RAMALLAH, HOWEVER, is strictly an Arab city, and it looks the part. Unlike most cities within…
… Israel's borders, Ramallah's street signs and advertisements are written only in the Arabic alphabet. Shopkeepers, often as not, have a minimal or non-existent knowledge of any language other than their…
… native one; they don't need any other. The music one hears blaring forth from storefronts is no mix of East and West either: just that largely monotonal drone exclusive to the Arab world. The faces one…
… sees in the throngs that cover the streets in the hot midday are Arab faces-I think my hazel eyes might have been the only ones lighter than dark brown on the en- tire main street of Ramallah. Perhaps…
… grudgingly takes its orders. Standing in the central square of town, the thorough injustice of the current Palestinian plight struck me as never before. Here is an Arab city populated by Arabs, living an Arab…
… life graced with centuries-old Arab culture, yet bound by the rule of a government peopled with a culture and lifestyle more European than Asian, and catering primarily to the interests of its own. THE…
… Arabs I met in the West Bank convinced me that Ramallah will one day again be an Arab city with regard to sovereignty as well as with regard to population, and that that will happen long before the…
… Israeli military government unilaterally shut it down. The faculty and students had planned and begun celebrating an event they called "Palestine Week," meant primarily to celebrate Palestinian arts and…









