Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat's initiative created a deep division in the Arab world and resulted in his breaking diplomatic relations with all but one of these countries (choose one): A) Syria; B) Iraq; C) Libya; and D) Morocco. This is one of 100 questions that constitute the 44th annual TIME Current Affairs Test, which has been distributed during the past month to schools across the U.S., Canada and Europe. (The correct answer...
...Ethiopian adventure is Israel, whose friendship with Addis Ababa dates from the 1950s (if not, as some Israelis note, from the days of King Solomon's celebrated dalliance with the Queen of Sheba). The friendship is maintained today because predominantly Christian Ethiopia remains the only non-Arab power in the area, and the Israelis are hoping to retain a foothold there...
...speaker is never identified, but his words have moved Israeli readers ever since the appearance in 1949 of a novella called The Tale of Hirbet Hiza. The story, by now an Israeli classic, deals with the cruel behavior of a Haganah unit ordered to drive Arab inhabitants out of their village in Palestine during the war of independence. Written by Yizhar Smilansky under the pen name S. Yizhar, the story focuses on a young soldier's wrenching self-doubt as he obeys the brutal command to clean out Hirbet Hiza...
Hammer, 42, is a founder of Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful), the nationalistic religious organization that has pushed hard for the expansion of the Israeli settlements in captured Arab territory. Hammer acted after receiving complaints from two members of the Israel Broadcasting Authority's board of directors that the screening was untimely, given the negotiations under way with Egypt. But the unprecedented cancellation of a TV show prompted protests of censorship from a coalition of artists, authors, lawyers, Knesset members, journalists and TV technicians. TV newsmen vented their feelings by letting Israeli screens go dark for 45 minutes...
Because of the Arab threat, she says, the ideals of femininity and male dominance are still gaining in Israel: "It may well be that Israeli women will not... be ready to enjoy or demand full equality until there is some form of peace for Israel. But lest that peace be meaningless for them, they must start...