Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Militant Israelis have also adopted provocative tactics. In October settlers moved overnight into Silwan, a strictly Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem, and occupied several houses. Accounts vary as to how many Arabs they evicted. The settlers' activities were temporarily restrained by an Israeli court, but in December they returned with the government's sanction. One Arab family now unhappily shares its home with settlers...
...over the West Bank, well-armed Jewish settlers are becoming a law unto themselves, stalking the countryside with guns, shooting up Arab homes and smashing cars. President Chaim Herzog has warned that vigilante attacks "could create a most dangerous situation in the future." Last week the army announced that it would increase its estimated 4,000-troop force in the territories by 20% to combat Palestinian violence. Yet the Israeli army continues largely to turn a blind eye to the settlers' miscreant activities...
...world. Periclean Athens was a slave state, and so was Augustan Rome. Most of their slaves were Caucasian. The word slave meant a person of Slavic origin. By the 13th century slavery spread to other Caucasian peoples. But the African % slave trade as such, the black traffic, was an Arab invention, developed by traders with the enthusiastic collaboration of black African ones, institutionalized with the most unrelenting brutality, centuries before the white man appeared on the African continent, and continuing long after the slave market in North America was finally crushed...
Sheik Jaber is not only determined to punish his enemies; he is also reluctant to trust his friends. Egypt and Syria offered to lend ground troops as a deterrent against the threat of future Iraqi aggression in exchange for billions of dollars in economic aid. But Kuwait wants no Arab soldiers stationed on its soil. Instead, the Kuwaitis are almost totally reliant on the ! U.S. for protection. They had hoped American troops would stay, but have contented themselves with a 10-year security agreement allowing the U.S. to maintain weapons and conduct military exercises in Kuwait...
...radical fundamentalists who might prove antagonistic to the give-and-take of democracy. After the F.I.S. swept the first round of voting on Dec. 26, the military was hardly alone in its fears that the fundamentalists might wield their legislative clout to impose an Islamic republic. Nearby African and Arab states breathed a sigh of relief after the military intrusion, which the Tunisian daily As-Sabah characterized as "a last-minute change of direction by a train heading toward the abyss...