Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brother against my cousin. But I, my brother and my cousin against the outsider." That old Arab proverb aptly described the tenuous unity that emerged last week among factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization as they literally fought for their lives in Beirut. The Shi'ite Amal militia had set out in mid-May to seize control of three Palestinian refugee camps -- Sabra, Shatila and Burj el Barajneh -- to make certain that the P.L.O. would not regain the power it once had in Lebanon. Amal Leader Nabih Berri was convinced that Syrian-backed P.L.O. splinter groups opposed to Chairman Yasser...
...time was 1:10 p.m. Class was supposed to have ended. But the 35 juniors at the Jerusalem high school in Israel kept firing questions at two Arab guests, Walid Mula and Amal Rabi, both of them Israelis. "I don't see how you can understand the Palestine Liberation Organization's use of terror," said one youngster. Replied Rabi: "I believe that the P.L.O. is the representative of the Palestinian people. O.K., I am part of the Palestinian people . . . (but) I see myself as a citizen of Israel entitled to equal rights...
...asked another student, "should I accept someone like you, who gives legitimacy to . . . the P.L.O. that wants to kill me?" Remarkably, the debate contained no animus. When class ended, the students agreed that they had learned things they did not know before and that the session had helped Arab and Jew to know each other better...
Across Israel, such exchanges are becoming increasingly common in a new course in coexistence called "The Arab Citizens of Israel." The study program is designed to help defuse the hatred between the nation's 3.5 million Jews and 700,000 Arab citizens. When the course, built upon a text written by Alouph Hareven of the Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation, and two others, was initially tested on about 1,000 Jewish high schoolers in 1983-84, hostility could hardly have been more intense. Six wars in 37 years have generated over 37,000 Israeli casualties and many more among Arabs...
...Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on progress. This week Hussein arrives in Washington for discussions with President Reagan. His aim: to win Washington's backing for talks between U.S. officials and a joint Jordanian Palestinian peace delegation. Such a meeting would be followed, according to Hussein's plan, by direct Arab-Israeli negotiations over the future of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The King believes that this may be the last, best chance for the U.S. and its allies to negotiate a Middle East peace -- and hopes that Reagan will agree...