Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, in his maiden appearance, Scranton proved the two alike in at least one respect. By the time a Security Council Middle East debate had ended, the man who was a Nixon troubleshooter in the Middle East in 1968 and put the word evenhanded into the lexicon of U.S. Arab-Israeli diplomacy, had, like Moynihan, provided surprises for everybody, including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
Islamic delegates sought the U.N. debate in order to protest Israeli occupation of the Jordan West Bank and expropriation of Arab land by Jewish religious extremists. Even as the Security Council met, West Bank Arabs continued their protests (TIME, March 29) against Jewish prayers at East Jerusalem's Temple Mount, which is also the site of an Islamic shrine. The resulting angry scurries between Palestinians and Israeli troops also produced casualties: an eleven-year-old Arab boy died after being shot in the head and an older man succumbed from head injuries after being beaten in a protest...
...Security Council session, the Arab participants included a representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization, invited to act as spokesman for the West Bankers. Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog also decided to attend-after Washington exerted pressure on Jerusalem to alter its longstanding policy of refusing any face-to-face meetings with P.L.O. members. Thus for the first time ever, Israeli and P.L.O. delegates sat down together in the Security Council. Herzog carefully ignored P.L.O. Observer Zehdi Labib Terzi. Terzi interrupted the Israeli frequently on points of order and referred to Israel as the "Zionist entity...
Holy of Holies. The reason for the debate was a storm of demonstrations, strikes, riots and other political protests that spread through West Bank cities and towns last week. The initial focus of the Arab discontent was a religious issue: a decision handed down two months ago by a Jerusalem magistrate, Ruth Or, that Jews had a right to pray on the Temple Mount, the site of the ancient Temple of Solomon and hence Judaism's holiest site. It is also the site of Al Aqsa mosque, revered by Moslems as the third most sacred spot in Islam, after...
Furious over what they labeled an attempt to "take over our holy places," Arab students in the West Bank city of Nablus abandoned their classes and took to the streets, singing pro-P.L.O. songs. Student strikes spread to other towns. Arab businesses closed. Six mayors and five city councils of important towns on the West Bank resigned...