Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact is that most violence in Israel is not committed against Jews, but against Arabs. Shelters in Israel for Arab workers are set on fire. Arab homes are blown up by the Israeli military. Arabs are routinely harassed, detained and teargassed by Israeli soldiers. Having been beaten by the Israeli police in Jerusalem myself, and having witnessed many other beatings, I can attest that beating Arabs is de rigeur in Israel...
Winsome Brown, as the "old blind Arab woman," displays the most depth of any character as an embodiment of the native population's suffering. However, even she cannot gain audience sympathy because a French soldier beats her to death in a staged slapstick scene...
...Galper and Katz go on to say "So what if King Tut was Black? What does his Blackness do for Blacks in the inner cities?... For Blacks who are enslaved to this day in Arab countries? ....Beneath all his hateful demagoguery, Jeffries offers no constructive answers to any of the pressing problems facing Blacks and non-Blacks in America and the world today." This questioning is a arrogant and abrasive--a little bit like asking a feminist theorist, "what does all your stuff do for all the women out there who are beaten black and blue by their husbands...
Even without Palestinian participation, last week's 26-nation conference on Middle East regional issues made progress at its opening session in Moscow. ! Israel counted it a diplomatic victory simply to sit at the negotiating table with 11 Arab countries, including Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The European Community, Japan, China and Canada were also represented in the Russian capital...
...what if King Tut was Black? What does his Blackness do for Blacks in the inner cities? For Blacks in poverty? For Blacks who are enslaved to this day in Arab countries? Or for the rest of us genetically underprivileged ice people...