Word: arab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since 1966, when an Iraqi landed in central Israel, had an Arab pilot defected to Israel. Embarrassed Syrians claimed engine trouble had forced the plane to land. The MiG was equipped with new electronics that Israeli intelligence officers were eager to inspect, and Adel seemed willing to tell all. But Jerusalem was still not happy. News that the MiG had flown undetected over Israel for seven minutes stirred a public storm of anger, and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin promised "a thorough investigation...
...Israeli government, however, considers the new U.S. policy a godsend. It is hoping that thousands of such emigres will now actually come to the Jewish state and help balance the rapidly growing Arab population. Finance Minister Shimon Peres announced during a visit to Washington last week that Israel expected some 100,000 immigrants from the Soviet Union by 1992 and planned to spend $3 billion to assist them. "I don't think there is anything more important than to have Russian Jews coming to Israel," he said...
Sixty-two members of Lebanon's parliament convened last week in Saudi Arabia, meeting outside the country to avoid being intimidated by Syrian troops, who have occupied Beirut for the past three years. The session's goal: to enact political reforms called for in an Arab League peace plan that produced a cease-fire two weeks ago in the six-month-old civil war pitting Lebanon's Christians against the Syrians and their Muslim allies. The meeting will continue, said one member, "however long that takes...
Aloni said that until last November, "The Palestinian people and the Arab world were not ready to recognize the right of the Jewish people to exist...
...Arab League envoy Lakhdar Ibrahimi, who brokered the deal, promised that an immediate cease-fire would permit residents of battle-ravaged Beirut "to reopen their shops and return to their homes." The plan also calls for a lifting of blockades on Lebanese port cities. If the cease-fire holds, ! Lebanon's parliament is expected to convene this week to discuss political reforms demanded by the country's Muslim majority...