Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some 3,000 Arabs work in the Jewish area of the city. By paying Israeli income tax, the Arabs of Jerusalem now enjoy the benefits of Israel's advanced social welfare system. There is a brisk traffic of Jews and Arabs, for business and pleasure, between the two sectors of the formerly divided city. On Friday nights young Jews can, for example, escape from the rigors of the Sabbath into three discotheques in the Arab section. Most important, until last week there had been no major incidents of violence among the two populations of Jerusalem...
...unexploded British grenades fitted with timing devices and hidden in garbage cans were also discovered by the Israelis. Chanting "To the Old City!" "Kill them, kill them!", more than 100 Israeli youths swarmed through the narrow, twisting streets of the Arab quarter on a vengeful rampage...
...Damascus Gate, they smashed the windshields of Arab-owned taxis and damaged parked cars. Several Arab passersby were chased and severely beaten -and so was one young Israeli who was mistaken for an Arab. Shops and cafes were damaged, and one howling gang broke into an Arab-owned liquor store and shattered practically every bottle on its well-stocked shelves. At the height of the rioting, an Israeli girl shouted: "This is what the Arabs deserve. Five bombs in one night is too much." Busloads of police finally drove the mob back into the Israeli sector, where they continued...
Sabotaged Aims. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan rushed to Jerusalem in order to reassure the frightened Arabs who had locked themselves in their shut tered homes. Denouncing the riots as "criminal hooliganism," he blamed the bombings on terrorist infiltrators and exonerated the local Arab population. "We want to see a single unified Jerusalem, and by confusing the large civilian population with a small group of saboteurs, we are sabotaging our own aims," argued Dayan...
...Arab terrorist organization El Fatah promptly claimed credit for the explosions that brought the total number of such incidents to 14 in two months. Its aim: to unsettle the civilian population and sabotage the modus vivendi between Jews and Arabs in Je rusalem. After a protest strike by the Arab population, normal life returned to Jerusalem. But on the Israeli-Jor danian border, the military hostilities erupted anew. At week's end Israelis and Jordanians were peppering one another across the frontier with small-arms fire...