Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Secondary changes in the new government also give it a slightly more hawkish tilt. The hard-line Moshe Arens took over responsibility for Arab affairs from the dovish Ezer Weizmann. Labor's first Health Minister refused to serve under Shamir; his replacement is inevitably more hawkish. And Zevulun Hammer was chosen by the National Religious Party to replace the long-tenured Yosef Burg, reflecting the general merger of religious sentiment and extreme nationalism, expressed in its most alarming form by Member of Knesset Meir Kahane...
Will the reshuffling of portfolios add up to a major change in policy? Arguments cut both ways. No, the fundamental balance in the government has not changed. Shamir is as constrained by the coalition agreement as Peres was. Peres has affirmed his intent to continue his conciliatory Arab policy as Foreign Minister...
This letter is in reponse to Steve Lichtman's editorial evaluation of David Shipler's book, Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirit in a Promised Land. His analysis of the book is probably fair, but in the process he makes various political assertions of his own which are unqualified, vague and even factually untrue...
First, he states that Arab textbooks and papers used in the West Bank "exhibit virulent militarism and anti-semitism." This is simply not true as all Arab publications must pass through the hands of an Israeli censor...
...Arab diplomat said Hashemi had been angry at Syria for pressuring Iran to free hostages. However, the kidnapping of the Syrian envoy only increased the pressure because Iran was embarrassed by the exposure of its ties to the kidnappers...