Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part of the police- application process, hotheaded ideologues are screened out. By design, the trainees in this unit are longtime residents of Jordan who have wives and children but are in their late 20s and early 30s, too young to have fought in the Arab-Israeli wars. ("It is impossible that they are on any Israeli blacklist," says an instructor.) "We're going to Jericho as policemen, not as soldiers," Al Sadi reminds his men. "Being a policeman is much harder. The policeman has to help everyone -- no matter what his nationality -- and forget about his own identity and feelings...
...claims that 20,000 Egyptians fought alongside the mujahedin. The government's experts put the figure closer to 2,500 and say that as many as half of them have returned home. A senior Western diplomat in Cairo insists that both estimates are too high. He says 2,500 Arabs went to Afghanistan and that only about 200 Egyptians received combat training and returned to fight their government. Even so, says the diplomat, "it only takes a few to create the myth." In Algeria several hundred Arab veterans, known locally as "el-Afghanis," are fighting in the ranks...
...York-based agent, Mustafa Shalabi, who ran the Alkifar Refugee Center in Brooklyn, known as "the Jihad office." Both Azzam and Shalabi were murdered in 1991. Another key figure was Saudi financier Osama bin Laden, who fought with the mujahedin himself and brought many others to the cause. Arab governments under attack by extremists often claim that the returned Afghan veterans are being directed by a central office in Afghanistan and financed by Iran. Such suspicions have not been proved...
...Herb Kelman is one of the few people who has maintained for very many years a dialogue with persons on all sides in the Arab-Israeli situation," Graham said...
Kelman, a founding editor of the Journal of Conflict Resolution and one of the founders of the study of political psychology, said he first thought of holding Arab-Israeli workshops in 1967, when it occurred to Kelman that social and psychological methods could be effectively applied to the Middle East conflict...