Miami Herald · Miami, Florida · 3 February 1989
CP-1989-013
Israeli officials play down offer from Shamir to withdraw troops
Herald Wire Services, Hebron, West Bank
Transcribed from the clipping
“‘If the army withdraws from the cities, we expect the most horrible things, riots and demonstrations of thousands,’ Rabbi Moshe Levinger… told Foreign Minister Moshe Arens… ‘They [the Palestinians] will go out from the cities and conduct pogroms,’ said Levinger, who is under investigation in the slaying of a Hebron shopkeeper during a stone-throwing incident… More than 70,000 Jewish settlers live among the 1.7 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.”
Context added by this archive
One of two printings of the same Associated Press dispatch, the same morning. This one is datelined HEBRON, West Bank. The other, in Worcester, is datelined HEBRON, Occupied West Bank. Six years earlier a wire story had stopped to tell readers that newspapers use pogroms of violence against settlers; here is the word in a named speaker’s mouth, about violence that has not happened. Palestinians are the subject of every paragraph and not one is quoted.
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"Israeli officials play down offer from Shamir to withdraw troops," Miami Herald, 3 February 1989. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1989-013. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1989-013
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