Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gradually, however, attitudes began to change. The girls came around first, moved by written accounts of personal hardship experienced by Israeli Arabs. "Some girls . . . related they had actually been unable to sleep after reading the text," reported the teacher. Ultimately, both boys and girls conceded that the problem of Arab vs. Jew in Israel could no longer be ignored...
...course, even the program's supporters did not expect that Arab-Jewish hatred could be easily remedied. A poll of students last fall revealed that 60% of Jewish youngsters believed Arab citizens did not deserve full civil rights. Many Arab Israelis brush off the course as tokenism. "How can you teach coexistence . . . in the midst of conflict?" asks...
...spring were alive with discussion among some 5,000 pupils. About 1,000 teachers and 700 student teachers have been trained in handling the course, with another 2,300 scheduled for training in the coming year. Additional materials are now in preparation for elementary and junior high schools. An Arab counterpart to the Jewish program has been prepared for introduction later this year. In October an Arab-Jewish television series modeled on a long-popular U.S. situation comedy, All in the Family, is tentatively scheduled to come out over the Israel Broadcasting Authority, using ethnic differences as material for humor...
...part of the regular school curriculum. "We don't have all the answers," Shmueli says, "but let us discuss, scream, shout, and let us get to know each other." That has been precisely the effect of the civics program, as exemplified by a three-day trip last month by Arab students to the town of Sderot, where they stayed with Jewish families. "We feel comfortable enough with one another to speak openly," says Revital Levy, 17, about her new Arab friends. "I think that our changed attitude will filter down through the whole school." Hareven, for one, passionately hopes...
Already Southwestern oilmen have formed an odd-couple alliance with East Coast Jewish groups called the Council for a Secure America. Their shared interest is to avoid U.S. dependence on Arab oil by encouraging domestic oil exploration. Now the lobbyists who dreamed up that coalition are trying to form a congressional link between Texas (oil and gas) and New York (deductibility of state and local taxes). "We'd have 61 votes in the House," says Dan Dutko of the Council for a Secure America. "It would be by far the largest single bloc on the issue." Congress cannot afford...