Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What triggered much of this latest activity was Israel's response to two questions that the Carter Administration put to Dayan during a Washington visit two months ago. The U.S. pointedly asked Dayan to clarify Jerusalem's position on the captured Arab territory in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip: Would Israel be willing to declare that at the end of five years the final status of these areas would be resolved? And how might this resolution take place...
...large urban centers on the West Bank. If carried out, says a longtime observer in Jerusalem, "this plan would be the last straw. In five or ten years, it would gobble up so many land resources that the West Bank would become an integral part of Israel." Arab states and the U.S. agree that the settlements violate the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits an occupying power from transferring parts of its population to conquered territory...
Israeli officials frequently speak of the settlers as living in peace with their Palestinian neighbors. In fact, these pioneers have relatively little contact with Arab villages near by. Palestinian farmers do come to some settlements to barter fruits and vegetables, but closer contacts are shunned by both sides. When one Arab approached residents at Karnei Shomron, near the 1967 border, and asked if he could send his child to the community's day care center, they said no, on the ground that it would set a dangerous precedent...
...Jewish communities are Israeli fortresses in the midst of Arab hostility. The stark reality is told in the barbed wire strung around Kiryat Arba, the largest settlement (pop. 1,700), and in the armed soldier who stands at the gate of Karnei Shomron. Rabbi Moshe Levinger, 42, of Kiryat Arba, a spokesman for the settlers, admits that he always carries a gun. "The Arabs don't want us here," he explains. "They'd kill us all if they could."' Relatively few settlers say they would stay on the West Bank without the Israeli army's protection...
...semipermanent "liberation," as Begin calls it. Does this mean that the Jewish state-a nation born of discrimination and a longing for freedom -has become blind and insensitive to sufferings of others? Have the Israelis lost something of their humanity in a quest for security forced upon them by Arab hostility and four bloody wars...