Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israel between the pre- 1967 boundaries and the Mediterranean is only eight to 13 miles wide, and contains 67 percent of the country's population and 80 percent of its industry. The strategic vulnerability of this heartland until the Six Day War put Israel in a completely untenable position--Arab armored columns and artillery possessed the ability to cut Israel in half, to destroy its major residential and industrial centers, and to disrupt its lines of communication and transportation. This ability has grown immensely, in terms of military strength, with the help of the Soviet Union and petro dollars...
...quality of life for West Bank Palestinians. TIME Jerusalem Correspondent David Halevy was told by one of the Prime Minister's top aides that "Shamir is ready to enable the local population of the West Bank to run their own lives. He will seek ways to re-establish Arab mayors at all of the West Bank urban centers." More surprising, Shamir hinted that he was willing to "take a second look at the U.S. peace plan" advanced by Reagan last year...
...largesse? "Nothing," Shamir told Israeli journalists when he returned home. "We did not pay for whatever we got from the Americans." Shamir made no promise to freeze settlements in the West Bank or to go along with U.S. plans to continue to provide sophisticated military aid to moderate Arab nations. U.S. officials insist they never expected Shamir to yield on such matters. Their modest hope, said one, is that Shamir, unlike Begin, will not "throw a tantrum" whenever the U.S. tries to strengthen its friendship with Arab nations...
...reaching a rapprochement with Shamir, the Administration overrode the objections of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who has long feared that the closer the U.S. draws to Israel, the more it will lose its influence with the moderate Arab nations on whom eventual stability in the Middle East, and its oil, depends. Said a Pentagon official about the role of Reagan and Shultz in the decision to embrace Israel: "They went over us like a steamroller." In effect, Shultz and Reagan decided that it was better to cast America's lot even more fully with an old friend, no matter...
...Nazis of the Middle East," Shamir, says an aide, "believes that the Palestinians are human beings with their own ambitions and expectations, forming a human community the Israelis should learn to know and to understand." Similarly, Shamir has conveyed to aides his belief that Israel is part of the Arab Middle East and should not close itself into "a modern Jewish ghetto...