Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Calling the release a "goodwill" gesture, the hijackers said the Jordanian nationals were freed as a "present to the uprising in Palestine," the 4-months-old Arab rebellion in Israeli-occupied territories...
...light of Glen Schwaber's letter to the editor (April 11), the Society of Arab Students (SAS) would like to clarify our ongoing attempts to present the Palestinian perpective of the current uprising against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...call for nothing but an end to U.S. support of the Israeli occupation. The Palestinian death toll printed on our posters refers only to those killed in the uprising in the occupied territories, and the photographs of Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians depict scenes only from the Israeli-occupied Arab lands, not from within Israel itself...
...light of Israel's violent responses to the current uprising. At least 123 Palestinians have been shot, beaten or tear gassed to death. Four Palestinians have been deported from their homeland, thousands of others arrested without charge. Telephone lines, electricity and even food have been denied to various Arab villages. And in one of the most recent events, the Israeli occupation forces blew up the homes of more than a dozen Arab families in response to the alleged stoning of a young Jewish girl. It was later discovered that the girl had been mistakenly shot by her Jewish bodyguard...
Lastly, we find it unfortunate that Mr. Schwaber deems it appropriate to accuse the Society of Arab Students of "extremism, anti-Americanism, sensationalism and hate." Such accusations prey on the basest of assumptions about Arabs in general, and Palestinians in particular. Simply because we bring attention to Israel's political and human rights violations in the occupied territories does not mean we merit the titles of extremists, anti-Americans sensationalists, or hate-filled people. We are concerned human beings with legitimate grievances which we wish to express, just as Hillel expresses concern over Soviet Jewry, just as the South African...