Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because, as Palestinian lawyer Hussein abu Hussein says, "We don't receive one agora from the state," these organizations are forced to rely primarily on funding from philanthropic and charitable groups abroad. Between 80 and 100 such Arab voluntary organizations receive 90 per cent of their funding from abroad, mainly from Western Europe and North America...
...ARABS comprise 18 percent of the population of Israel proper. Israeli budget allocations, however, have never fully acknowledged their existence. As the Jerusalem Post reports, more than half of Arab families in Israel live below the poverty line. Even so, the Israeli government regularly provides Arab towns and villages with as little as one-third of the regular budget allocations and one-tenth of the development funding provided for equivalent Jewish municipalities...
...result, a host of non-profit, voluntary Arab organizations have been formed in recent years to provide such diverse social services as public libraries, scholarships for students, health care, assistance to the aged, day-care centers, and sports groups...
...tortuous nature of that language was hardly unplanned. It is not difficult to imagine the misguided logic by which charitable organizations that fund Arab groups will be defined as acting "for the denial of the existence of the state of Israel...
...Pope Catholic. Except in this case, the asserter was Colonel Muammar Gaddafi himself. To hear the Libyan leader tell it, in an interview with the Egyptian weekly al- Musawwar, he went to the aid of unspecified terrorist groups in the conviction that they were practicing revolutionary violence for the Arab cause, which is good stuff. Imagine Gaddafi's horror, then, when he discovered that his hijacking, trigger-happy clients actually meant to exercise "terrorism for the sake of terrorism." That is a no-no. Avowed the newly scrupulous Gaddafi: "We have withdrawn our support to such groups...