Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...include his security forces among their targets. Late last week a suicide bomber bicycled into a group of Israeli soldiers and police near the Israeli settlement of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip and detonated the explosives strapped to his body, killing three, wounding six and injuring five Arab bystanders, including a Palestinian police officer. Arafat's government responded to the suicide attack by rounding up 115 militants and banning rallies by opponents of the peace accord. No wonder Arafat complained to an aide, "Everything is coming down on my head...
...Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Thus this week the Palestinian authority is scheduled to take charge of tourism and social welfare in the West Bank, and health and taxation by the end of the month. Next week negotiations are to resume on moving the Israeli army out of the Arab-populated areas in the West Bank, to be followed by elections for a Palestinian self-rule council. "There is no way back," says an Israeli negotiator. "Nobody can undo the agreements, so the only option is to go forward." The month of November, however, is only half over...
...after he issued a decree that made theIsrael-Jordan peace treatyofficial, King Hussein flew to the shores of the Sea of Galilee and became the second Arab leader -- after Egypt's President Anwar Sadat -- to visit Israel publicly. Hussein arrived in northern Israel by helicopter, then shook hands with well-wishers and even kissed a baby on the way to three hours of talks with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The King has secretly slipped into Israel over the years for negotiations during periods when the two countries were privately chummy but officially at war. BTW: Sadat, whose visit...
After the treaty ceremony in the desert Wednesday, Clinton stopped briefly in Amman, where he told the Jordanian parliament, "You have sent a signal to the entire Arab world that peace is unstoppable." A test of that prediction came the next day in Damascus. Clinton was taking a chance on Assad, rewarding him up front with a telegenic official visit by a U.S. President, even though Syria is still listed by the State Department as a sponsor of terrorism. For his part, Clinton wanted to hear Assad offer public assurances that he opposes the kind of terror Hamas has been...
When the Palestinian extremist group Hamas unleashed a blitz of bloodshed on Israel in mid-October, climaxing in the suicide bombing of a Tel Aviv bus that left 23 dead, it meant to escalate the conflict between Arab and Jew to a more vicious level. Last week Israel gave an uncompromising answer to the challenge. Through leaks to the media, Israeli security officials let it be known that "this is now a war with gloves off. Whatever is needed to neutralize these people, whether it's to put them in jail or whatever, will be done...