Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biblical homeland was translated into a national liberation movement to create a Jewish state in Palestine. For most Jews the argument became moot in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973, which represented unmistakable threats to the existence of Israel. Arab leaders frequently make a distinction between Judaism, which they claim to respect as a biblical religion that is a spiritual precursor of Islam, and Zionism, which they see as an outdated colonialist and imperialist ideology imported from Europe. The Jewish answer is that today this is a distinction without...
...Assembly resolution, however, couples "racism" with "racial discrimination," which by the U.N.'s own canons includes ethnic discrimination as well. Israel's record is more vulnerable on that charge: Arab speakers in the U.N. debate ticked off a number of examples of discrimination against Arabs in the occupied territories, including restrictions on travel and harassment by police. Most galling to the Arabs is Israel's Law of Return, which grants instant citizenship to any Jew who immigrates to Israel from anywhere in the world, while Palestinian Arabs who fled their homeland during the 1948 war are still...
...Morocco filming The Life of Jesus, Director Franco Zeffirelli has assembled a decidedly ecumenical cast. To portray Christ at various stages of his life, he has chosen a newborn Berber baby, a two-year-old Arab boy, a five-year-old Jewish lad and Actor Robert Powell, 29, an Anglican. For the Virgin Mary, the Roman Catholic director settled on Argentine-born Olivia Hussey, 23, who first starred in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet eight years ago. Her religious preferences? "This may sound a bit far out," she says, "but two years ago a medium told me that...
...their products, guarantee loans totaling up to $750 million to mine operators wanting to expand coal production, underwrite state efforts to develop fuel-saving programs and provide for the creation of an oil reserve of 500 million to 1 billion bbl. of oil as a hedge against another Arab oil embargo...
...reason for this reticence seems manifest: Mrs. Meir's career ended on a stark and bitter note. During the Yom Kippur War, it fell to her as Premier to assess intelligence reports of Arab intentions and, as a circle of one, decide at what point the Israeli army should be mobilized. She waited too long; before mobilization was finally ordered and the battle with Egypt and Syria stabilized, Israel had lost more men than in any war since 1948. "I should have listened to the warnings of my heart and ordered a call-up," she now admits. For Israel...