Detroit Free Press · Detroit, Michigan · 21 June 1988
CP-1988-019
I did not speak to a single person - Israeli or Palestinian - who is optimistic about the future. Most feel that the worst is yet to come.
Transcribed from the clipping
“I did not speak to a single person — Israeli or Palestinian — who is optimistic about the future. Most feel that the worst is yet to come.”
Context added by this archive
A pull quote set in a box on the same page as the iron fist headline (CP-1988-020). The reporter is the only person in it, and the finding is that nobody they met could see a way out. Printed in Detroit in June 1988, six months into the first intifada.
Cite this item
"I did not speak to a single person - Israeli or Palestinian - who is optimistic about the future. Most feel that the worst is yet to come.," Detroit Free Press, 21 June 1988. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1988-019. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1988-019
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