Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Israel's former Foreign Minister and chief dove, once observed in wonderment that when it comes to peace, the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. In 1947, when the U.N. offered them a state side by side with Israel, they rejected the plan and joined the Arab war to destroy the nascent Jewish state in order to take all of Palestine for themselves. They lost...
...reach for this opportunity? One possible explanation is, well, simple opportunism. The P.L.O. -- bereft of its superpower patron, cut off from its gulf Arab paymasters, faced with rising Islamic opposition in the occupied territories -- was in a state of terminal decline. Yasser Arafat decided that if the P.L.O. did not accept this offer, there would soon be no P.L.O. to accept any offer...
Benelux, that picture-postcard association of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, sets the world standard for cooperative neighborliness. Unfortunately, however, the Arab Middle East does not look very much like Benelux. Eighteen states, and not a single functioning democracy. Among them, such spectacular failures in ordinary civil decency, let alone "great tolerance" and "real freedom," as Lebanon and Iraq...
...Adnan refers to are his fellow supporters of Hamas. Of all the organizations eager to kill the rapprochement between Israel and the Arabs, the militant Muslim fundamentalist group is probably the greatest threat. An acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement that literally means "zeal," Hamas wants nothing less than the destruction of the Jewish state, followed by the establishment of an Islamic Palestine as a precursor to a greater pan-Arab union. The organization was born in the misery and despair of the teeming refugee camps of the Gaza Strip five years ago, two months after the beginning of the intifadeh...
Inertia has been the curse of Arab-Jewish relations for too long. Each people came to nurse profound grievances against the other based on mutually exclusive interpretations of history. Jews knew that they had been dispossessed by Caesar, dispersed into exile and repeatedly persecuted, in fact nearly destroyed; returning to the home God promised to Abraham, they saw themselves in mortal danger again. Arabs viewed modern Israel as colonialism by a new name, one more indignity visited on them in a 1,000-year-old struggle between the West and Islam...