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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 333by the Ford Foundation, accused Israel <strong>of</strong> "severe, indiscriminate,and recurring" violence against Palestinian children. It estimatedthat between 50,000 and 63,000 children had been treated forinjuries, including at least 6,500 wounded by gunfire. It said most<strong>of</strong> the children killed had not been participating in stone-throwingwhen they were shot, and one-fifth <strong>of</strong> the cases it examinedshowed that the victims were shot either at home or within 30 feet<strong>of</strong> their homes.The intifada still rages, with no end in sight. <strong>By</strong> July 1990,according to Associated Press, 722 Palestinians were killed byIsraelis, and 230 more by Palestinian radicals; at least 45 Israelishave died.During 1989, Israel sent a peak <strong>of</strong> 10,000 soldiers into Gaza andthe West Bank to try to keep order. <strong>By</strong> April 1990, that had fallento about 5,000 troops.On February 13, 1990, the Wall Street Journal reported that anIsraeli bank study had estimated that the first two years <strong>of</strong> theuprising had cost Israel $1 billion in lost growth and production.In addition, it had cost that country $600 million for the army tosuppress the intifada.There are more than 600,000 Palestinians crammed into the GazaStrip's 146 square miles. About 60,000 <strong>of</strong> them travel into Israel towork each day, toiling primarily in low- paying menial jobs,returning home each night because they are forbidden to staythere overnight.On March 16, 1990, Israel's Knesset defeated the government <strong>of</strong>Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir by a vote <strong>of</strong> 60 to 55, the first timean Israeli government had fallen on a non- confidence vote. Itcame after Shamir refused to accept a U.S. plan for beginningIsraeli-Palestinian peace talks.On June 7, Shamir and his right-wing Likud Party formed acoalition with some splinter parties, giving them a two-seat edge inthe Knesset in what most observers saw as the most extremeright-wing government in Israeli history, allowing Shamir tocontinue his policies <strong>of</strong> promoting settlements in the disputedterritories and refusing to talk to the Palestinians.On November 15, 1988, at the climax <strong>of</strong> a four-day meeting inAlgiers, the Palestinian National Council, considered by

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