Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Palestinian-Israeli conflict. My intention here is not to raise questions about Israel's raison d'être, legitimacy or right to exist. I am simply informing those who do not know, and reminding those who have forgotten, that a Jewish homeland was created in the midst of an Arab population...
...author is a member of the Society of Arab Students...
Months before Israel declared her "independence," and before the outbreak of war between the Jewish militia and Arab armies, there were hostilities between the Jewish and the native Palestinian population. Indeed Yigael Yadin, Acting Chief of Staff for the Jewish forces in 1948, talked about a D-plan based on previous ones drawn up by the Haganah...
...plan included "the destruction of Arab villages" near Jewish settlements or main arteries of transportation, the "evacuation of their inhabitants [my emphasis], the siege of Arab cities that were not located inside the Jewish State according to the United Nations resolution and direct actions against Arab targets in Western Palestine outside the borders of the Jewish State...
...will seriously erode civil liberties," complains James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute. "I think it would be terrible if the legislation passed in this atmosphere." One provision that has angered the bill's opponents would permit the deportation of aliens who donate money to activities sponsored by groups that the President has determined are involved in terrorism, even if the money was earmarked for ostensibly peaceful purposes, such as schools or medical assistance. That could affect fund raising in the U.S. on behalf of nonviolent undertakings by Arab groups that also have paramilitary wings. That, says the American...