Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israel accepted a U.N. plan to partition Palestine, which would make an Arab state out of a much larger area than is now encompassed by the occupied territories. The Palestinians fought the partition; according to U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie, "the Arabs repeatedly had asserted that they would resist partition by force." A Palestinian spokesperson called the partition "a line of fire and blood...
...West Bank and Gaza were under Arab control from 1948 until 1967; still no Palestinian state was demanded or created. When Palestinian leaders called for liberating Palestine (the PLO was founded in 1964 doing just that), they were talking about eradicating the entire state of Israel...
...troops along Israel's southern border, Syria shelling the northern border and both nations calling for war, Israel fought back. Israel won the West Bank and Gaza in that war and at the time indicated that it was eager to negotiate a peace settlement to give them back. The Arab leaders meeting at the time refused, charging "no peace with Israel, no negotiations with Israel...
Since the Six-Day war, Arab efforts have been focused on regaining the territories. Arafat's current efforts seem to indicate that a state would be enough to settle the question of peace in the region. Still Palestinian rhetoric confirms that the territories are a mere step toward the underlying goal--the entire state of Israel...
...counsel that conditions for peace have not been so ripe since the state of Israel was founded in 1948. The trend is toward moderation. Egypt has a treaty with Israel, Jordan at least wants to resolve the conflict, and the P.L.O. seems ready to talk rather than fight. Radical Arabs, said Mubarak, are increasingly feeling "cornered." At an Arab League meeting expected soon, Hussein will lead a moderate attempt to reinstate Egypt, expelled for signing the peace treaty with Israel in 1979. He also wants to take away the statutory authority of the radicals to paralyze moderate Arab initiatives with...