Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan will visit Harvard today in response to a student-initiated invitation from the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Arab Students...
...response to the recent violence and chaos in Israel, leaders of the Harvard Students for Israel (HSI) and the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Arab Students (SAS), as well as representatives from Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, met last night to plan a future discussion between the groups...
...prompting, for the first time, a head-on clash between the two armies. By week's end, when hostilities had calmed to a simmer, 59 Palestinians and 14 Israelis had been killed and nearly a thousand others injured throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Not since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war had the territories seen such carnage...
Putatively, it was all about a hole in the ground, dug by the Israelis in Arab East Jerusalem to complete an ancient tunnel showing off the buried foundations of Judaism's sacred Western Wall. Palestinians considered the digging a provocative incursion into their terrain, but in truth, it was only the match thrown into the tinderbox of accumulated Palestinian fury. For months, Israeli and Palestinian intelligence officials had warned of an impending explosion in the territories. In August, Ali Jirbawi, a political scientist at Bir-Zeit University in the West Bank, said, "Scratch the surface, and you find a state...
...stalemate has been exacerbated by profound economic distress in the territories. For seven months, Israel, in response to terror attacks, has curtailed the number of Arab day laborers allowed to enter Israel, contributing to a 50% Palestinian unemployment rate. Netanyahu recently agreed to increase the permits for day laborers by 18,000 to 50,000. Still, economic growth is impeded by Israeli restrictions. Lengthy security checks mean few Palestinian goods reach the Israeli market, even as Israeli products flow freely through the crossing points. Palestinian trade with Jordan and Egypt is restricted, also for security reasons, as is commerce between...