Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their sermons seem to be everywhere. The fundamentalists maintain that American troops were sent to the gulf not to fight Saddam Hussein but to prepare for war between Christianity and Islam. The Saudi preachers also contend that Protestants from the West have been exploiting tensions between Israel and its Arab neighbors to this end. They cite actions by American Presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter as well as televangelists Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson as "proof." Their advice to their followers: seek converts, especially in America; send Korans and money to Palestinian Muslims and urge them to procreate...
...second week, Israel continued its artillery and air attacks on villages controlled by Shi'ite Hizballah guerrillas in southern Lebanon. So far, 24 people have been killed and 59 wounded. Fighting began after guerrillas attacked Israel's "security zone" inside the Lebanese border. Arab assailants meanwhile stabbed two Israelis to death, a 15-year-old schoolgirl near Tel Aviv and a rabbi in the Gaza Strip. Both murders sparked anti-Arab riots by Israelis. Defense Minister Moshe Arens ordered the Strip sealed off, restricting 700,000 Palestinians to the area...
...educated, upper-class family, the youngest of five daughters of a respected physician, had a political awareness that was largely theoretical until the day in June 1967 when Israel took over her hometown of Ramallah. She was a student at the American University in Beirut, then a hotbed of Arab nationalism. She joined in eagerly: "I was going to change the world." But on that June day she heard rumors that her house was being shelled, her parents were perhaps dead, her town occupied. As she stood in a long line at the Red Cross waiting for news, "I knew...
...English, in fact, made her a star. First on Nightline, back in April 1988: she was one of six Palestinians invited to the first Israeli-Arab town meeting to discuss the intifadeh. People saw the stones, but she gave the uprising words. Then with Faisal Husseini, the No. 1 political leader in the occupied territories, who linked up with her as his voice (his own English is poor) and his guide to the American mind (she was a graduate student in Virginia for three years) when the Palestinians first engaged in a dialogue with Baker. Then she won over Baker...
...West -- and many ordinary Palestinians -- fell in love with her at Madrid, but the West Bank political establishment did not. Her portable phone , buzzes with requests for speeches, appearances, interviews, meetings -- from foreigners. "Wow," her admirers from abroad think. "She's female, educated, talks like us: our kind of Arab. She's so rational, so pragmatic." But the camera-clicking adulation that follows her every move abroad produces a distinctly muted reaction at home...