New York Times · 27 December 1987

CP-1987-037

ISRAEL ARMY READY TO START TRIALS FOR PALESTINIANS

John Kifner

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“The Israeli army is preparing to begin military trials for nearly a thousand Palestinians rounded up after two weeks of disturbances in the occupied territories.”

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Three weeks into the first intifada. Four American papers in this archive printed this dispatch on the same Sunday, and each wrote its own headline over it.

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"ISRAEL ARMY READY TO START TRIALS FOR PALESTINIANS," New York Times, 27 December 1987. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1987-037. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1987-037

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