Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe the massacres at Sabra and Shatila will show the world why Israel has to be strong and alert. If Arabs could do such things to Arabs, imagine what they would do to Israelis. When the P.L.O. killed women and children in Israel, we saw dancing in Arab streets, not antigovernment demonstrations...
...main subject of their discussions was President Ronald Reagan's plan to establish Palestinian self-government in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip that would be associated with Jordan in exchange for Arab recognition of Israel's right to exist. Arafat said that the plan had "some positive elements," although he criticized its rejection of full Palestinian statehood. Still, there was some reason for encouragement in Arafat's seeming openness to consider the idea. "Reading between the lines," said an Administration official, "I think there is a realization on Arafat's part that the Reagan...
...Amman meeting inevitably raised some fears within the Arab world. The Syrians, hostile to Jordan and fearful of losing their role as a champion of the Palestinians, wasted no time in condemning the talks. The Syrian news agency reported that five of the 15 groups constituting the P.L.O. had blasted the Jordanian federation idea as a product of "American schemes" and "reactionary Arab regimes." Three of those groups disavowed that statement, however, and Arafat's leadership did not appear to be seriously threatened. Arab moderates like Saudi Arabia and Morocco, moreover, were quietly encouraging the Jordanian-Palestinian relationship...
...have no illusions that the road to peace in the Middle East will be an easy one to tread. To move towards such a goal the Arab states and Palestinian spokespeople must unequivocally recognize Israel's right to a secure existence as a nation-state. In turn, Israel must be willing to trade territory for peace--and such an action, we believe, will necessitate the democratic replacement of the Begin-Sharon government...
Shortly before his death a month ago, Nachum Goldmann, the founder of the World Zionist Congress, the past president of the World Jewish Congress and a leading spokesperson for Jewish-Arab cooperation, joined other Jewish leaders in a moving call for Israeli and Palestinian reconciliation. There men knew well that when the Jewish people said "Never again" after the genocide of the Holocaust they meant not only that "Never again" would six million Jews (and, let us never forget, also six million Poles. Catholic priests, Russians, Ukranians, gypsies, and homosexuals) he systematically exterminated; but also that the Jewish people would...