Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...local Arab groups initiated attacks against Jewish civilians such as the murder of 39 workers at the Haifa refineries and the planting of explosives in Jewish towns which killed dozens of people. In Ben-Yehuda Street, Jerusalem, scores of men, women and children were killed or maimed when Arab assailants exploded a bomb in the crowded city center. By March, 1948, more than 1,200 Jews had been killed, half of them civilians...
World opinion tended to forget that Arab violence had preceded and would also follow the Deir Yassin incident. A few days later, Arab forces attacked a convoy of doctors and nurses of the Hadassah Medical Center. The Director of Hadassah and his 75 dedicated colleagues were burned alive...
Tensions on both the Arab and the Jewish side mounted as the designated date for the British departure on May 14 was drawing near. Five Arab armies were deployed on the mandatory border, preparing to enter into the newly-established state and annul any declaration of independence by force...
...midday of May 14, Egyptian forces had advanced deep into the southern Negev. An Iraqi column moved toward the Jordan river. The Transjordanian Arab Legion was arrayed along the river. On the upper reaches of the Jordan, a Syrian brigade was ready to attack the villages in the valley. Apart from the impetuous Egyptians who had already printed stamps to commemorate their "imminent victory," the Arab governments were awaiting the Mandate's last official hour before launching their attack...
...expected, on the following night five Arab armies simultaneously invaded Israel. What ensued were 15 months of intermittent fighting, during which the newly-formed Israeli Defense Forces repulsed the invading armies, at a cost of over 6,000 Israeli lives, nearly one percent of the country's total Jewish population at the time...