Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proving the moral basis of the society. The social differences are becoming smaller, and we have more justice in our social structure than we had seven years ago. At that time there were two Israels, and the second included the suburbs and development towns where the new immigrants from Arab countries lived. Now even this definition has disappeared. The feeling of belonging to Israeli society is now much more general. I think it is a great accomplishment of the Likud...
...relations with the U.S. One of the arguments in 1977 was that if the Likud came to power there would be a war with the Arab countries because of the [occupied] territories and then relations with the U.S. and with all the Western world would become terrible...
...Ashkenazim. In a few particularly ugly instances, the Sephardim have been dubbed "Khomeinis"; they have responded by calling their antagonists "Aske-nazis." Even Prime Ministers, including European-born David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir, have spoken darkly of the dangers of "mob rule" and sweepingly written off "the primitive Arab mentality" of the Sephardim...
...word Arab is in effect the heart of the matter: the majority of the Sephardim have their roots in the Islamic world. Though they know their Arab neighbors better, and like them less, than do their compatriots of European origin, they are often lumped by association with Israel's sworn enemy. For their part, the Sephardim point out that Judaism is a Semitic creed and that the Torah was originally handed down in the Sinai...
...There they remained, thanks in large part to the shortage of housing: with rental accommodations almost nonexistent and mortgages scarce, the ill-qualified immigrants who longed to settle in Jerusalem, the city of their prayers, found themselves herded instead into cheerless prefabricated tent towns, remote villages precariously close to Arab positions or the Negev wilderness. The more fortunate families that managed to stay in Jerusalem did well to find single rooms, in abandoned Arab houses. There was little work to be found and little food. Often young boys lived off what they could pick from the pockets of Ashkenazim...