Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...balloting comes at a moment when the country must decide, in effect, how much it can risk on peace. To go with the imaginative Peres, many voters believe, means continuing the Arab-Israeli peace process at its current revolutionary pace, chancing that Israel will make concessions that may later prove calamitous. To go with the sober-minded Netanyahu means slowing the rapprochement to a less frightening speed, at the hazard of losing real opportunities to end the conflict...
...ever on Palestinian workers crossing into Israel. In response to Katyusha rocket attacks on northern Israel by Hizballah guerrillas in Lebanon, Peres last month launched a massive 17-day bombardment of Lebanon. But the killing of more than 100 innocent civilians at Qana (see box) has alienated Israel's Arab minority, who make up some 15% of the population and whose ballots Peres had counted on. If they don't vote for him, Labor officials concede, their defection could prove fatal to Peres' campaign...
...ahead of everybody else," recalls Hamza Mohammed, a Palestinian volunteer in Afghanistan who now manages one of bin Laden's construction projects in Sudan. "He not only gave his money, but he also gave himself. He came down from his palace to live with the Afghan peasants and the Arab fighters. He cooked with them, ate with them, dug trenches with them. That was bin Laden...
...civilians in the preceding weeks, they killed no one. Yet even when Israeli artillery destroyed a U.N. outpost near Qana that sheltered Lebanese refugees, killing 109 people, Clinton and his aides refused to condemn Israel. To Clinton, Peres is the keystone for Israel's effort to reconcile with its Arab neighbors. And as such, he merits backing. By providing support, the U.S. was endangering its relations with the entire Arab world, but the White House seemed to feel it had no other choice...
...condemning Israel for the attack, the U.S. has so far prevented a condemnation, arguing that assessing blame could hinder efforts at reaching a cease-fire. "It remains to be seen to what extent the Americans can deter or sidetrack the condemnation of Israel," Marlowe says. "In Europe and the Arab world, feelings are running pretty high right...