Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week Moskowitz was boldly demonstrating what a mess a fistful of dollars, strategically spent, can make of Arab-Israeli relations. It was his foundation's bingo-parlor proceeds that financed the Jewish zealots who set up house in an Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem, nearly provoking violent confrontation with the Palestinians and casting more blight over the peace process. It was not the first time his philanthropy had set off seismic reverberations. His money helped prompt the opening of a new exit to an archaeological tunnel in East Jerusalem a year ago that sparked a bloody three...
JERUSALEM: Reports of Yasser Arafat's imminent demise are almost surely exaggerated. Last Friday Israeli Television quoted "Western intelligence sources" saying that Arafat suffers from a "serious illness," and there were rumors that he fainted Sunday during a closed-door Arab summit meeting in Cairo. But TIME Jersusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer reports that few dispassionate observers believe the Palestinian leader is seriously ill. "His hands shake, and his lips tremble, and there is some reasonable speculation that he might have the very beginnings of Parkinson's disease," says Beyer...
...both surprising and sad then to see a lapse in that oversight in a story on tensions in Jerusalem from the Reuters newsservice in last Thursday's paper. Accompanying that story was a photograph depicting a Palestinian Arab youth confronting an Israeli Border Policeman. The caption to that photograph fails to measure up to the Crimson's high standards on two counts...
First, it erroneously describes the encounter as occurring in Arab East Jerusalem. As recognized by both the Israeli government and the United States Congress, Jerusalem is the undivided capital of the State of Israel-not separated into eastern and western sections. Further, it is inaccurate to refer to east Jerusalem as Arab because, although there is a sizable Arab population in the city, Jews today are the majority in east Jerusalem and the Jewish population has been the largest community in Jerusalem since 1840. The term Arab East Jerusalem is inappropriate because it ignores the political and geographical realities...
...leave someone went all the way up to the Defense Minister and the military Chief of Staff. The Israelis concluded that the soldier, who had been carrying explosives, must have been blown to bits. Later someone from Hizballah found parts of his body and offered to trade them for Arab prisoners held by Israel...