Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With regard to Kennedy's statement, Trig Tarazi '89, president of the Society of Arab Students said, "The United States does determine what is going on when they give $45 billion to one side in a conflict and not the other. As for negotiations, they want to negotiate with groups other than the Palestinians; they try to talk with the Jordans and the Syrians," Tarazi said...
KHAN YUNIS, Occupied Gaza Strip--Israel sent troop reinforcements backed by armored vehicles into the Gaza Strip yesterday to battle rioting Palestinian youths and one Arab was reported killed and nine wounded...
...Arab reports said nine people, including an eight-year-old boy, were wounded and scores of others were injured in at least a half-dozen clashes...
American taxpayers have unwittingly been funding the process all along. Since 1967 when Israel first occupied the Arab territories, the United States has given Israel more than $45 billion in aid. This year alone, Israel is receiving more than $3 billion, almost one-half of all U.S. foreign aid, at a rate of almost $8 million a day. Aid to Israel has always been supported under the assumption that it was a moral imperative: Israel needed our tax dollars to promote democracy and to defend itself from hostile neighbors...
...Occasionally, the sponsor of the referendum, the Coalition for Palestinian Rights (CPR), has come under attack as having "a hidden agenda." Despite the referendum's clear call for "peace for all states in the region, including Israel," many still assert that the CPR, which incidentally includes both Jewish and Arab Americans, is secretly seeking the total destruction of Israel. As further evidence of our alleged bias against Israel, the opposition points out that the referendum does not call on the U.S. government to apply pressure on the Palestinians. The referendum's attention to only Israeli atrocities, they claim, is proof...