Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sensitivity, however much it's a product of real pain or past suffering, lead me to condescending conclusions about the views or intent of other individuals or groups, I'm only doubling the stereotyping I claim to be fighting. If, as a person very upset by anti-Arab remarks, I respond to a peer's assertion that Egyptians govern their society stupidly by calling her a racist, stalking off and writing an angry letter to The Crimson, I'm not giving her a chance to talk the issue out with...
...leader proved so paradoxical to his friends or so confounding to his critics as did Menachem Begin in his stewardship of that office. He came to power in 1977 after a campaign in which he advocated continued Israeli rule of captured Arab territories. Abrasive and seemingly uncompromising, he talked incessantly of Israel's claim to Judea and Samaria, that part of Israel along the West Bank of the Jordan River that was taken from Jordan in 1967, a territory now inhabited by 1 million Palestinians...
Begin's government pursued a policy of aggressive territorial expansion. More than three times as many Jewish settlements were established in the West Bank territories during his six years as Prime Minister as in the previous decade of Labor governments. In 1980 he presided over the annexation of the Arab sector of Jerusalem. In December 1981 he pushed through a bill effectively annexing Syria's Golan Heights...
...report also counted 3,641 car bombs, which killed 4,386 people. The toll includes 241 U.S. Marines and 58 French paratroopers who died in nearly simultaneous truck bombings in 1983. The Lebanese conflict, which ended in 1990 when Syrian forces crushed Christian General Michel Aoun and an Arab League-mediated peace accord took hold, claimed more than twice the number of lives lost by both sides in the five major Arab-Israeli wars since...
...family circle. Then came Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent arrival of more than 500,000 U.S. troops in the region. While President Bush maintained that Desert Storm was not designed to promote democracy in the gulf's oilagarchies, the campaign to liberate Kuwait prodded conservative Arab rulers to broaden public participation...