Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symbol to Gemayel's Muslim foes of what they saw as his subservience to Washington and Jerusalem. The U.S. and Israel stood by the agreement even after it was clearly doomed, believing that it was, at the very least, a symbolic breakthrough toward peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors...
Such treatment, unfortunately, was never accorded to Jewish communities living in Arab lands. Mild examples of Moslem discrimination against Jews included legislation forbidding a Jew from riding a horse lest he appear higher than a Moslem and laws mandating that synagogues not be visible from the street and be built lower than other city buildings. Step into the Intercontinental Hotel outside of Jerusalem and see the bathrooms paved with Jewish tombstones from the days of Jordanian occupation...
...Moslem living in Israel ever lost his hand as punishment for stealing. No Moslem drug dealer, prostitute, or Communist has ever been executed within Israel's boundaries. In fact, no Moslem has ever been sentenced to capital punishment in that country. Furthermore, Arab women can wear what they like where they like and Arabs may drink alcohol should they so choose...
...assertion of some that Israel's isolation in the international arena is a result of obstinacy not any global anti Semitism bolds the least water. The condition of Arab states and third World nations, bullied by the former's oil, plus the members of the Eastern bloc can steamroll any anti-Israel bill through the United Nations General Assembly and many affiliated organizations such as UNESCO...
...isolation is the ostracism of Israel by Black Africa. In the 1960s hundreds of Israeli development specialists, scientists and engineers flocked to the newly independent nations of Africa seeking to contribute to the infant states some of the know-how that helped fuel Israel's agricultural miracle. Succumbing to Arab pressure due to their dependence on oil the African states ultimately expelled the Israeli advisors during the late 60's and early '70s. The oil-producing Arab states repaid their African friends by raising oil prices by 1000 per cent during the Yom Kippur War, thus unleashing havoc on most...