Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saleh, Arafat is "just another Arab head of state, like the others, running a dictatorship, with his own clique surrounding him." Anyway, he adds, "our future is determined by the Israelis and the Americans, who believe the Palestinians should be quiet and not make trouble. Therefore, we are given a little thing and that's it." Saleh, however, is not angry; his voice is dispassionate, matter-of-fact. "We live from day to day," he explains, returning to his counter. "I'm not willing to exhaust my energies awaiting the fulfillment of high hopes." Such resignation may prove the salvation...
...senior leader of the militant group Hamas. Hamas, which has claimed responsibility for several bombings in Israel, quickly warned the U.S. against turning him over. A Hamas leaflet issued in the Gaza Strip today demanded the immediate release of Abu Marzuk, saying his detention would "add to the Arab and Muslim anger that is raging against the U.S. hostile policies." Marzuk was detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in New York City as he returned from a two-month trip abroad. Leaders of Hamas said their anger would not lead to terrorist attacks in the U.S. But, as Sheikh...
...Middain, the Palestinian Justice Minister, sums up today's situation by saying, "Israel is still our enemy. We have no peace, only procedures for making peace. It may lead to peace; it may lead to war." In the heat of a recent controversy over Israeli land confiscations in the Arab part of Jerusalem, Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini suggested it might be time to renew the intifadeh...
...over a busy highway. The teenage girls in the Thai film Daughters sniff glue as a break from their stealing and prostitution. In La Haine, denizens of the bleak projects outside Paris rip off Chinese grocers and face off in grudge matches with the police. For the drug-dealing Arab pre-teens in Bye-Bye, set in Marseilles, the only moral imperative is to stay alive. In another French drama, Le Plus Bel Age ... (Those Were the Days), middle-class students indulge in sadistic occult rituals. The film's gruesome hazing scene suggests a twist on the famous Groucho Marx...
Israel suspended its controversial decision to confiscate Arab land in East Jerusalem after five Arab legislators -- all crucial allies in parliament -- threatened a no-confidence vote that would have toppled the government.Last month's plan to seize 140 acres of mostly-Arab landto build homes for Jews threw the Arab world into an uproar. It especially strained relations with the Palestine Liberation Organization, whose constituents want East Jerusalem as a future capital. (Israel has claimed sovereignty since it captured the area from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war.)TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyersays Israel also succumbed to "threats...