Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chances are that both sides will accept, but on Jerusalem's part not without a certain amount of rancor. Reason: in an annual report to Congress on the state of human rights around the world, Vance's State Department alluded guardedly to reports of "systematic" mistreatment of Arab security suspects from the occupied West Bank and Gaza. Although the department declined to endorse the charges, it concluded that "the accumulation of reports, some from credible sources, makes it appear that instances of mistreatment have occurred." Israeli officials vehemently denied the accusations...
...report was unfortunate. The controversial Washington Post disclosures came at a time of renewed tension on the West Bank. Two weeks ago, in a calculated act of reprisal against the families of suspected terrorists, bulldozers of the Israeli army moved into West Bank villages at dawn and crushed four Arab homes to rubble...
...Arab reaction was swift and defiant. In the West Bank towns of Ramallah and Halhul, students stoned Israeli soldiers; the soldiers retaliated with arrests and beatings. Near the village of Sinjil, Arab youths stoned Jewish settlers belonging to the religious nationalist Gush Emunim (group of the faithful). The angry Jews invaded the Arab school in Sinjil, seized the principal and marched him to their settlement for "questioning." In the midst of this unrest, the Israeli government established a new "outpost"-the forerunner of a civilian settlement-at Nueima, northeast of Jericho. The settlement will be the 51st on the West...
...tension has begun to seep across the "Green Line" (the pre-1967 western border of the West Bank) into Israel itself, where 575,000 Arabs live as Israeli citizens. More and more, the Israeli Arabs are complaining openly of being second-class citizens and protesting government seizures of their land for Jewish settlements. In Nazareth last week municipal workers were on strike demanding fiscal equality with Jewish communities. Arab Nazareth, with 45,000 residents, received $4.5 million last year while upper Nazareth, populated by 18,000 Jews, was allotted $8 million...
...Arab students in Israeli universities, calling themselves the Progressive Nationalist Movement, last month published a statement in favor of the Palestine Liberation Organization and against the "Zionist entity." At Haifa University, firebrand American Rabbi Meir Kahane called the Israeli Arabs "a time bomb in the Jewish state." Right-wing Jewish students then circulated petitions demanding the expulsion of all Arabs from Israeli universities...