Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israel last week was dispensing turnstile justice, some of it compassionate, some of it harsh, most of it simply quick. After the worst Arab rioting in the country's occupied territories in nearly two decades, military authorities were determined to make speedy examples of the more than 1,000 demonstrators arrested, the vast majority of them Palestinian males between the ages of 14 and 35. The number of Arab fatalities rose to at least 22 after a 17-year-old Palestinian died of gunshot wounds sustained in one of the riots. The week brought a few fresh incidents of violence...
Deportation is applauded by almost no one outside Israel. Jordan, which has granted citizenship to most West Bank Palestinians and has accepted some deportees in the past, announced last week that it would not permit their entry. Egypt, the only Arab state that recognizes Israel, foreclosed any possibility of receiving newly deported Gazans. Faced with those refusals, Israel would probably send its Palestinians to Lebanon...
Those words hardly comforted the leaders of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, which met last week in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh to coordinate defense strategies. The six -- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates -- fear that they will be drawn ever more deeply into the conflict. Iran has already launched Chinese Silkworm missiles against Kuwait. At the summit's opening, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd said the Iranians were "pointing their arrows to our chests instead of helping us to liberate Jerusalem from Zionist domination. There is no reasonable justification for this other...
...Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who has spoken of the "indivisible security" of his country and the gulf, will visit the region. Egyptian officers already train pilots and antimissile personnel in Kuwait. Although Cairo is not ready to station troops ( in the gulf, the renewed solidarity between Egypt and the Arab states sends a cautionary signal to Tehran...
WORLD: Israel counters a wave of Arab violence with trials and a troop buildup...