Word: arab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ISRAELI Army Pushes Town to Hatred in West Bank"--so ran a headline in The New York Times last week, another in the list of odd and false commentaries about Arab-Israeli politics in the American press. The recent conflicts in the West Bank have intensified and publicized the animosity on both sides. But whatever hatred exists in the West Bank on the part of Palestinians has not been caused by the Israeli army, has not appeared only in recent months, and would not go away should the Israeli army withdraw from its territories...
...Jerusalem legendary Mayor Teddy Kollek, 77, won a sixth term in office with 59% of the vote. But his Labor-affiliated party, One Jerusalem, lost its majority on the powerful city council, in part because of low Arab turnout...
...most dramatic moments of Shevardnadze's trip were saved for his 2 1/2- hour meeting with Arens. Building on a flirtation that began several years ago, the two Foreign Ministers made history by holding their meeting on Arab soil. They pledged to continue their bilateral courtship at a high diplomatic level, though they accomplished nothing concrete that would further the peace process. On specifics, they had little in common. Shevardnadze pressed Arens to drop Israel's opposition to an international peace conference and talk to the P.L.O. Arens replied by urging Shevardnadze to sign on to Jerusalem's preference...
...that an Egyptian leader has been willing to talk with a member of Israel's right- wing Likud bloc. That very act seemed to signal some thaw in the "cold peace" that prevails between the two countries. Shevardnadze's revival of the international-conference proposal skillfully shored up the Arab moderates who have long advocated it, and his presence in Cairo, the first visit by a Soviet Foreign Minister since 1975, invigorated long-dormant Soviet influence in Egypt...
Shamir's sneak preview, however, offered nothing really new. Palestinian autonomy and negotiations on a final settlement five years later are ideas drawn from the 1978 Camp David accords, and Arab leaders, except Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, have adamantly rejected them all along. Nor are any leaders suddenly likely to embrace such a peace plan, especially now that the P.L.O. has launched its own diplomatic initiative...