Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reverend Jesse Jackson recited a list of western countries trafficking with south Africa-the United States, England, France, Italy, Germany, and even include Israel Which accounts for one half of I percent of South African imports. what he did not say is that the Arab countries are selling millions of dollars of oil to south Africa . Is one of the reasons for this blatant omission the fact that his organization, Operation PUSH, receives Arab donations...
Also what he did not say is that Israel virtually did no business with South Africa before the Yom Kippur war. After 1973 the Arab oil countries pressured almost all of the Black African countries to close the Israeli embassies (source: Naomi Chazan, Israeli Foreign Office, guest speaker at the African Studies seminar in December, 1984 at Coolidge Hall, Harvard...
...least one side benefit of the airlift of the 10,000 Blacks is that the rug have been pulled out from under Arab racist resolutions against Israel in the United Nations. On January 9at Yenching Institute, Harvard. U.N Secretary General Javier Perez talked on "The U.N. Potential in Shaping Tomorrow's World. "I asked him when would the U.N. reverse All he could say was that he, personally, had never considered Israel racist...
...Port Sudan three years ago, Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri came under mounting pressure from some members of his government to close his nation's borders. Nimeiri would have none of it. During a climactic Cabinet meeting on the issue, he interrupted the debate and dramatically invoked the ancient Arab tradition of hospitality toward strangers. Said the President: "They are the guests of Sudan...
...alive Jewish religious practices, these Ethiopians became the object of a secret evacuation by Israel, code-named Operation Moses. According to various estimates, between 3,000 and 7,000 of them reached Israel before word of the rescue operation leaked out. Nimeiri, whose government is a member of the Arab League and has no diplomatic relations with Israel, was embarrassed by the spotlight on Sudanese cooperation in the resettlement and ordered the airlift cut off. That left several thousand Falashas still in Sudan, many with relatives already in Israel...