Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Shamir said that the Israeli army would withdraw from "several urban centers" in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip once the 1.7 million Palestinians living there accepted limited autonomy. Then, Shamir said, Israel would pursue direct negotiations with Arab states and elected Palestinian "representatives...
Robert Bolt's eloquent, epigrammatic script traces Lawrence's career from mapmaking in the British army's Cairo headquarters to masterminding Arab nationalism. In Peter O'Toole's pensive, swashbuckling incarnation, Lawrence makes for a curious messiah. With his skin like a mandarin orange dipped in sand, his voice intimate and cryptic, his haunted eyes staring from inside his burnoose, O'Toole creates a towering, tragic, high-camp sheik of Araby...
These are the candid, plangent voices of Israel's soldiers, angry reservists confronting Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir last week in a makeshift encampment outside Nablus, the largest and most turbulent Arab city on the occupied West Bank. Nothing since the 1982 war in Lebanon has eaten into the heart of Israel's most revered institution, the Israel Defense Forces, as the past 14 months of bitter war against children and stones has done. Seemingly impervious to Israel's iron fist, the Palestinian uprising rages on, and that is exacting a price from the I.D.F. measured less in injuries than...
...Shamir defended these and all of the other measures the I.D.F. has employed against the uprising by blaming the Palestinians. "They force us to take guns and do things you don't like to do," he told the reservists. "We hate those P.L.O. people because they make us kill Arab children. But you must do that to survive...
Last month a life-and-death moral crisis in Jerusalem showed the dehumanizing gulf that has formed between the two sides. An elderly Arab man lay dying from an Israeli bullet. In a hospital across town, an elderly Jewish man lay dying for lack of a functional heart. A transplant could have saved his life. The Jewish family asked, the Arab family refused. Both men died...