Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Originally, Tuchman was intended to carry the story through 1943--through the years of the British mandate, the Arab-Israel war, and the final re-establishment of Israel. She spent six months of research on the history of these bitter last 30 years but, as she later explained. "When I tried to write this as history, I could not do it. Anger, disgust, and a sense of injustice can make some write eloquent and evoke brilliant polemic, but the emotions stunted and twisted my pen." This lesson has remained with her throughout her work...
Arafat had appeared to understand the urgency of the situation as well as Hussein did. Israel is engaged in a crash program of building Jewish settlements in the West Bank, whose population at the moment is 96% Arab. By 1987, if not sooner, however, the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin expects to increase the Jewish population of the territory from 35,000 to 100,000, making the Israeli colonization essentially irreversible...
...beginning of his latest talks with Hussein, Arafat described the political difficulties he faces, not only from P.L.O. hard-liners but from a number of Arab states as well. Hussein then asked Arafat if he would endorse Jordanian participation in U.S.-sponsored peace negotiations, whose aim would be to establish a future relationship between Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza. Arafat replied that he could not give the King a mandate to speak for the Palestinians. Arafat reportedly also put aside the idea of authorizing certain Palestinians who are not members of the P.L.O. to participate in future negotiations. When...
...gamble that the U.S. would then meet two key Palestinian demands: recognition of the P.L.O. and acceptance of Palestinian self-determination as a basis for negotiation. Arafat, in reply, proposed that the P.L.O. and Jordan agree to a set of negotiating principles, which would then be presented to an Arab summit meeting for ratification. Explained an aide: "Arafat does not want to make a move without a lot of people moving with him." Referring to Egypt's isolation from the rest of the Arab world after Anwar Sadat signed the peace treaty with Israel, he added: "The lesson...
...what? Because the West Bank lies at the epicenter of Arab-Israeli tensions, both sides charged that the "epidemic" was politically based. Arab leaders maintained that Israeli authorities, or perhaps extremist Jewish settlers in the West Bank, had poisoned the schoolgirls, hoping to intimidate the Palestinians and eventually drive them out of the West Bank. Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, declared that it was all part of a "planned and systematic crime against our people." Israeli officials, stung by such accusations, charged that the Palestinians were exaggerating the seriousness of the illness for political effect. Later...