Word: arab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Movement that Jumblatt heads also cuts across sectarian lines. It includes his own Progressive Socialists, as well as Communists, several groups of Nasserites and followers of the new renegade "Lebanese Arab Army." It also has the backing of the leftist Syrian Popular Party, headed by Inam Raad, a Christian, and including a sizable number of other Christians...
Tension began mounting at the beginning of February, when the Israeli Cabinet announced plans to expropriate 1,500 acres of Arab-owned land and 1,000 acres of Jewish-owned land in northern Galilee for a new housing project. The government pledged that landowners would be compensated in cash or new land and that 1,200 apartments in the new settlement would be reserved for Arab families...
...Arabs strongly opposed the project. They doubted that they would ever move into new apartments, since Israel's history offers almost no examples of Arabs being welcomed into Jewish communities. Many Arabs suspected that the real motive of the multimillion-dollar project was to encourage Jewish settlement in Galilee. The area is now 48% Arab; since the Arabs have a birth rate twice that of Israeli Jews, they will soon become a majority. That fact has disturbing political implications for the Jews of the region, who have long urged the government to encourage Jewish settlement...
...Communist mayor of Nazareth, called for a one-day general strike in Galilee for last week. The government tried hard to prevent it; some Arabs charge that workers were threatened with loss of their jobs if they failed to show up for work. Jerusalem claimed that fewer than half the 107 Arab villages participated in the strike. But in at least a dozen communities, police and soldiers battled with angry Arabs; three of them were killed in Sakhnin and one each in Araba, Kfar Kanna and Tira...
...Arabs angrily challenge the government version of what happened. Cabled TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff, who visited Sakhnin the day after the shootings: "The villagers claim that the night before the planned strike, about 300 soldiers drove into Sakhnin, firing rifles and machine guns into the air and then into houses. The townsmen insist that they set up roadblocks to keep the soldiers out of the village; when soldiers tried to enter homes, the villagers pelted them with stones. In response the government clamped curfews on Sakhnin and two neighboring communities, the first time that curfews had ever been...