Word: arab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cabinet to set a launch date. When lift-off occurs, Israel will become only the eighth country -- after the Soviet Union, U.S., France, Japan, China, Britain and India -- known to possess a rocket powerful enough to put a satellite into space. With its own orbiting electronic eye constantly monitoring Arab states, Israel would gain a distinct advantage in any military confrontation with its neighbors. In addition, Israel would no longer be forced to depend on U.S. satellite intelligence...
Israeli defense officials, however, are divided over timing. Those who want to launch the satellite as soon as possible argue that in the wake of the Iran-Iraq cease-fire and recent missile purchases by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Jerusalem needs to watch its Arab neighbors more closely. Those who prefer to wait argue that a launch now would only push Arab countries into beseeching Moscow for satellites of their own, thus fueling the region's arms race and irritating the Soviet Union at a time when Jerusalem is trying to improve relations with Moscow. The ten members of Israel...
Israel, meanwhile, refused to make the slightest concession to help smooth the way toward an international peace conference sought by Hussein and other Arab leaders. At least one comment in Hussein's speech last week was aimed directly at Israeli hawks. "Jordan is not Palestine," the King noted. Many Israeli rightists, hardened by the turmoil of the intifadeh, have come to support the view promoted by former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon that Jordan should be the Palestinian homeland and that the West Bank should be annexed by Israel. If large numbers of Palestinians from the West Bank were forced into...
...disagree; as he said in his speech last week, "Jordan will not give up its commitment to take part in the peace process." By abdicating responsibility for the West Bank, however, Hussein is challenging the U.S., Israel and the P.L.O. to work together toward a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict -- without relying so heavily on him. The question is what it will take to persuade the King to step back into the process, if that is what he has in mind...
Street clashes may mark the front line of the uprising, but at the heart of the resistance lies a passive refusal to cooperate with the occupation. The intifadeh has become a tug of war for economic and psychological advantage. The pervasive commercial strike under which Arab shops open for only three hours a day remains one of the most palpable symbols of Palestinian solidarity. The army has given up trying to break this form of protest...