Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jewish settlement of Kedumim is only about a mile away from the Arab hamlet of Kafr Qaddum in the West Bank. Until now the residents of both rural villages lived and let live. Last week the Palestinian turmoil that has engulfed Israel and the occupied territories came even to this remote spot. As 15 or so Palestinian youths manned a rock barricade across the road leading to Kafr Qaddum, a familiar blue Volkswagen van braked to a halt. Inside were two well-known settlers from Kedumim, Shimon Kav, 41, and Yosef Ferber, 48. The Arab youths say they told...
...uprising entered its third month last week, with eleven more Palestinian deaths, more curfews, more burning tires and even a torched Israeli bus that was set afire by Arab rioters near the West Bank city of Hebron. But the episode in Kafr Qaddum underscored a new, worrisome development: the growing militancy among the 65,000 Jews who live in the land that they call Judea and Samaria but that is better known as the occupied West Bank. Touring Hebron last week, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin denounced the settlers' actions as "destructive." Said Major General Amram Mitzna, regional commander...
...weeks ago militant Jews who live near Hebron and Ofra decided to strike back at the rioters. Settlers have raided Arab towns, vandalizing cars and houses. Armed with Uzis, pistols and billy clubs, ultrafanatic inhabitants of Kiryat Arba, home of Meir Kahane's extremist Kach movement, pile into cars and vans every day to patrol the roads leading to Hebron and Nablus. They claim that their purpose is to "supplement" the Israeli army; their real intent seems to be provocation and revenge. "The Palestinians are not afraid of the soldiers," insists Shmuel Ben-Yishai, a spokesman for the Kiryat Arba...
Riot police stopped a bus carrying Israeli Arab high school students from school in Haifa to their homes in Umm al Fahm and beat several of them, the daily newspaper Al Hamishmar reported...
Transport Minister Chaim Corfu appeared to suggest Israel bombed a ferry that was to carry Arab deportees from a Cyprus port to Israel. If the Palestine Liberation Organization obtained another vessel, he said, "Its fate will be the same...