Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the 16 months since the Palestinian uprising erupted in the occupied territories, international news organizations have suspected Israeli security agents of posing as foreign journalists in order to penetrate Arab villages. The government denied the charges. Last March, however, a British TV crew videotaped two Israeli agents disguised as journalists as they subdued a Palestinian woman...
...Jordan's King Hussein discussed the prospects for Arab-Israeli peace with George Bush in Washington last week, life was decidedly less than peaceful in the monarch's desert realm. The trouble started in the southern town of Ma'an when thousands of demonstrators attacked government office buildings and burned banks to protest increases in the price of food, gasoline and other goods. The riots quickly spread to other southern towns and then to the northern city of Salt. Hussein's brother Crown Prince Hassan, whose car was pelted with stones when he visited Ma'an, blamed Islamic fundamentalists...
...rare legal move against Jewish settlers, an Israeli court last week indicted one of their leaders, Rabbi Moshe Levinger, 54, for manslaughter. The court charged that the Israeli shot an Arab shopkeeper to death and wounded another in the city of Hebron last fall, after Palestinians stoned his car. The indictment stunned Levinger's followers, who have asserted their right to protect themselves with guns...
...suggesting anything. They can do as they please. But Jordan is the only Palestine there will ever be. The people of Jordan are Palestinian. They were Palestinian before the British put King Hussein's family there; they are Palestinians now, the same families we have in our Arab cities and countryside -- Jenin, Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron, Bethlehem. They will be Palestinian in the future. It is like Greece. They got a nice Danish, German, British King. But it was Greece before that, Greece when they had the beautiful King, and it is Greece now. Jordan is 77% of Palestine...
...think Israel is striving for peace. It is part of a new, very sophisticated Arab strategy to make it appear that Israel is rejectionist. There are several steps in the strategy, weakening our ties with the U.S., getting the U.S. to put pressure on us, reduce aid, make us smaller economically and militarily, smaller in all ways, then finally eliminated. Believe me, it will not happen. Our response should be to say clearly how we see things now, what can be and what cannot be. That way there can be no doubt about what we support to bring peace. That...