Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still besieged from within by frequent acts of random violence. A Jewish settler was killed a few weeks ago when her car was fire bombed on the road to the settlement of Alfei Menashe. In retaliation, settlers belonging to the extremist Gush Emunim movement rampaged through the nearby Arab town of Kalkilya. The West Bank's Bir Zeit University has been closed for four months, following student rioting that left one Arab dead at the hands of Israeli soldiers. Occupation authorities have shut down the school eleven times in the past ten years. Two weeks ago, an eight-year...
...heart, the vicious circle of resistance and repression testifies to the determination of both Palestinian and Israeli to possess the same land. To maintain control, Israeli officials have deported Arab leaders and have often destroyed the houses of those suspected of security violations. Land has been appropriated for Israeli settlements. Arab youths have been interrogated, collective punishment has been exacted, and prisoners have allegedly been beaten and tortured...
Many Israelis believe that the majority of Palestinians are neither politicized nor violent but want merely to be left alone to live in peace. Yet most West Bank Arab leaders would probably argue that political grievances are what bind the Palestinians together. "What the Israelis want for themselves, we want for ourselves," says Tawfik Amer, 63, a former Jordanian diplomat. "I do not deny the Israelis their state or their way of life, and they cannot deny me the same." Indeed, there is little doubt that the younger generation of Palestinians has become increasingly radicalized, particularly the university graduates...
...Jews in the more remote settlements, life is riskier. These are the communities that rub most against their Arab neighbors, partly because the Jewish residents are so aggressive in asserting their presence. Two weeks ago, hundreds of children from the hilltop settlements around Karnei Shomron marched down the road past Arab villages, chanting Israeli slogans and carrying signs heralding 20 years of settlement. To the Jewish settlers, such actions are not provocative but legitimate. Says Settlement Secretary Avner Vered: "These are religious people who believe they have the right to live all over Israel. When more Jews come here, nobody...
...there a solution to the impasse? Both Arabs and Israelis are hopelessly divided at present. Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization still commands the loyalty of the vast majority of West Bank Palestinians, but Arafat has broken his strategic ties with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein, the two Arab moderates with whom he might have formed a credible alliance. The two major political parties in Israel cannot agree even on whether to enter into negotiations with the Palestinians under United Nations auspices...