Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protection of Israel from U.N. discipline than for any other purpose. Particularly distressing is the fact that the U.S. seems to have a double standard that allows in Israel what it condemns in any other country. Faced with the deportations and the recent military action against Iraq, several Arab governments as well as many others have pointed out the discrepancy between the speed and force with which U.N. resolutions are enforced with regard to Iraq and the way in which the resolutions regarding Israel are never enforced...
...deportations and urged Israel to return the deportees, Israel has remained intransigent. According to The New York Times, Israel has opened the hearing regarding the legality of the expulsions only as a public relations move in the wake of international condemnation of its actions and calls from European and Arab countries for U.N. sanctions against Israel...
...they are on the verge of supplanting the secular Palestine Liberation Organization as the dominant force among their people and as the vanguard in the struggle against Israel. In part, Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad are riding the wave of Islamic fervor that has swept much of the Arab world; in part, they are feeding off the frustration of Palestinians who, after 14 months of relatively fruitless Middle East negotiations, increasingly believe that talk will achieve nothing. It is the peace process, rather than Hamas, that seems most imperiled by Israel's crackdown -- to the fundamentalists' delight...
...find a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian standoff. While the P.L.O. is committed to searching for accommodation with Israel, Hamas will settle for 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. "Between Hamas and Israel," says Abdul Sattar Kassem, a political scientist at An-Najah University in Nablus, "it is a battle to the death...
...movement's success has much the same source as fundamentalism elsewhere in the Arab world: the hunger for an escape from political and economic frustration and from the humiliation imposed first by Western colonialism and later by successive military defeats at the hands of Israel. Dr. Mahmoud Zahhar, a Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip before his deportation last month, explained it this way: "We have tried everything. We've had Nasserism and socialism. We tried Westernization. They all failed us. Now we see that the only thing that can re-establish the dignity of the people is Islam...