Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...P.L.O. rebels, strongly backed by Syria, tried to drive the Arafat faction into the sea. The chairman's cause seemed hopeless, as his followers lost control of one refugee camp, then another, and were cornered within a small section in the heart of Tripoli. But then, as Arab and various nonaligned diplomats rallied to his cause, Arafat seemed to be on the verge of escaping once again, to fight another...
...Israeli port of Haifa. From there they were flown to Sde Dov airport, near Tel Aviv, where they received a tumultuous reception from relatives and well-wishers. Once the Israeli prisoners were known to be safe, the Israeli government ordered the release in Lebanon of the remaining 3,500 Arab prisoners. Israel also returned the P.L.O.'s archives, which had been seized during the fighting in Beirut last year...
...lament profoundly what the Nazis did to the Jewish people, that Hitler and his lackeys destroyed almost six million during the last World War. But we do not accept that this gives them the right occupy a part of the Arab nation. We believe that the people of Palestine have a right to their homeland...
...side of the Palestinian refugees and we support wholeheartedly all that the sons of Palestine are doing to liberate their country, and we fully support the Arab and African countries in general in helping the Palestinian people to recover their dignity, their independence and their right to live...
...vehemence with which some African nations attack Israel in the U.N., then, is not simply a product purchased with Arab petrodollars. Perhaps a good deal of it is authentic disgust at Israeli policies toward Palestinians in the occupied territories, and at the South Africa connection...