Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some who knew him say Goldstein experienced an emotional crisis in December, when two of his friends were ambushed by Arab attackers near Kiryat Arba, the West Bank settlement just outside the Palestinian city of Hebron that has long been a magnet for the most aggressive Jewish ultranationalists. As head of the local emergency medical team, Goldstein was called, and Mordechai Lapid and his 19-year-old son died in his arms. "After a number of friends and neighbors died, he considered the Arabs to be Nazis," says Kiryat Arba resident David Ramati...
...same time he was already a devoted adherent of Kahane, whose Jewish Defense League advocated violence against anyone it perceived as a threat to Jews. In a 1981 letter to the editor of the New York Times, Goldstein echoed the rabbi's call for the forcible expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the West Bank. "The harsh reality is: if Israel is to avert facing the kinds of problems found in Northern Ireland today, it must act decisively to remove the Arab minority from within its borders," he wrote...
Terrorist--this term has recently become almost synonymous with the words Arab and Muslim fundamentalist...
...When an Arab or Muslim commits an act of violence all of Islam is implicated, but when a non-Arab, non-Muslim commits an act, especially in the Middle East, the perpetrators are portrayed as aberrations and the focus is often shifted away from the incident itself...
...Palestinian quoted in the Washington Post argued that whenever an Israeli kills an Arab, "they say, he's crazy, and when an Arab throws a stone, they say he's terrorist!" This sentiment, while not totally accurate, has a core of truth...