Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enforcement of Security Council Resolution 799, which demands their immediate and unconditional return. Meeting with American Jewish leaders on Tuesday, Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali suggested that the proposal did not satisfy U.N. demands. Back home, Rabin, attacked by the right-wing Likud Party for "capitulation to terrorist organizations, Arab governments and leftist ministers in the Cabinet," told the Knesset that Israel retained the option of deporting more Palestinians...
Amid the diplomatic turmoil, the U.S. postponed peace talks scheduled to resume this week. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher prepared for a Middle East tour in which he hopes to persuade Arab leaders to return to the negotiating table. Violence in Israeli-occupied Gaza lent new urgency to Christopher's peace mission: Friday was the bloodiest day in nearly two months, with five Palestinians shot dead by Israeli soldiers...
...refuge for Muslim terrorists? Americans were startled last week when Israel followed up the arrest of two Arab Americans in the occupied territories by suggesting that Hamas, the militant Muslim group that has been mounting armed attacks in Israel and the occupied territories, had moved its command center to the U.S. While the relationship between Washington and Jerusalem is almost never as chummy as the two governments make it out to be, they try not to point fingers and quarrel in public. But this time the diplomatic niceties slipped away in the middle of an emotional dispute about...
About 3 million citizens and resident aliens of Arab origin live in the U.S., and their cultural associations and fund raising for Islamic causes are not secret. Many Palestinians in the territories depend on remittances from relatives in the U.S. for personal and institutional needs. Some of the donors are politically active and anti-Israel as well. But no one before had suggested that they directed the attacks claimed by fundamentalist groups that have resulted in the death of eight Israeli soldiers in the past two months...
Rather than come right out with it, the Israelis hinted at and leaked their charge after Mohammad Jarad and Mohammad Salah, two naturalized Americans, were arrested as Hamas organizers in the occupied territories. Ehud Yaari, an Arab affairs commentator for the state-run Israel Television, said a shaken Hamas leadership had selected the U.S. as a safe haven and moved its "nerve center" there from the occupied territories. The Hamas militant underground, he said, consisted of four regional commands now directed from the U.S. headquarters...