The New York Times · New York, NY · 7 October 1997

CP-1997-018

Gaza Gives Freed Sheik Welcome Fit for a Hero

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“A sea of hands stretched out toward the slight, bearded man on a wheelchair, and a cry went up from thousands of throats… his return was celebrated here as a great victory, raising the group’s popularity among an increasingly embittered population.”

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Joel Greenberg at Yarmuk Stadium. Sheik Ahmed Yassin home after eight years, released in the swap after the Mossad’s failed poisoning of Khaled Meshal in Amman. The last clause is the reporting: the popularity is read as a function of the embitterment, not of the man.

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"Gaza Gives Freed Sheik Welcome Fit for a Hero," The New York Times, 7 October 1997. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1997-018. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1997-018

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