Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Squad members say the job is merely to intimidate and jail the ringleaders of the intifadeh. Specially trained soldiers armed with light, concealable weapons pose as Arabs as they prowl the territories in confiscated cars with West Bank license plates. Their tactics are often brutally simple. In Gaza undercover soldiers jumped from a car and clubbed Palestinian activists who were threatening Arab workers for violating a strike. Palestinian sources say the soldiers have also posed as members of the P.L.O. and beaten up rival Palestinians in attempts to spark internal warfare. Some of the Cherry soldiers even impersonate journalists, nabbing...
...Democratic Club-sposored forum in the Science Center, Zogby, executive director of the Arab-American Institute, told about 250 spectators that they had "an opportunity to make history in Cambridge, an opportunity to make history in America, and an opportunity to make peace in the Middle East" by voting yes to Cambridge referendum "Question 5" on November...
...election was widely seen as a watershed in determining the future of the occupied territories and shaping Israel's policy for dealing with its Arab neighbors...
Labor supported Arab calls for an international peace conference and said it was ready to sacrifice land captured in the 1967 Mideast war for peace agreements...
...Arab-oriented parties were expected to get theremaining seats but are traditionally excludedfrom coalitions...