Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nine months since Communist Poet Tawfiq Zayad was elected mayor, some surprising things have taken place in Nazareth, the largest (pop. 40,000) all-Arab city within the borders of Israel. New water and drainage pipes have been laid, three new schools have almost been completed and city council meetings have been thrown open to the public for the first time. Local tax collections have increased...
...sports stadium or traffic signal. City hall is an antiquity." Indeed, the city hall is a rundown pile of stone that looks much like a prison-which in fact is what it used to be. Zayad's father was an inmate there in 1936 after an Arab uprising against the British rulers of what was then Palestine. "I remember going to the prison every day to take food to my father," says Zayad, adding with a grin: "Now I go there every day as mayor of Nazareth...
That praise stems partly from his success at nabbing-and deterring -Arab terrorists. The police took over internal security in 1974, when the government decided that it needed more specialization in anti-terror tactics. Rosolio now also commands the border patrol and the civil guard, a voluntary army of 110,000 citizens. Last year terrorists plotted 150 attacks in Israel; the police stopped more than 50% before they started and collared most of the other guerrillas soon after they struck. Rosolio considers that record inadequate. Says he: "Wanton murder should not happen. We should get there before the bomb goes...
King Bulan then asked the caliph's representative to pick between Judaism and Christianity. The Arab also selected the Jews because Christians ate pork and knelt before man-made images. The choice was clear: If the two opposing superpowers could agree on the Old Testament god, who was Bulan to argue...
Israel as their rightful ancestral home land? Yet he is quick to counter himself with the argument that Israel's legitimacy is based on the 1947 United Nations mandate that partitioned Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state...