Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...veteran of World War II and of the 1948 and 1956 Arab-Israeli wars, Amichai spoke about his wartime experiences. He read poems from his new book, Every Fist Was Once An Open Palm With Fingers...
Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians agreed to meet Sunday to discuss the procedure for direct talks between Israel and each of the Arab delegations. But Syria, which objects to Israel's proposal to hold the next round in the Middle East, withheld a decision on attending Sunday's session pending consultations with its Arab allies...
...From the perspective of most of the rest of the world, it would be very difficult to understand how a party could now refuse to attend bilateral negotiations simply because of a disagreement over the site", said Baker, the architect of the first Arab-Israeli peace conference in almost two decades...
...Arab delegates met last night and an Arab official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Syrians were seeking a delay of two or three days before holding the procedural session. The Palestinians were pushing for Sunday, however, and further discussion was scheduled today, the official said...
Shamir, for his part, has voiced little affection for the Arab parties. His prevailing posture is that he will make no concessions. That leaves little room for successful negotiations. He claims that Israel's right to exist is not a bargaining chip and that Israel should not be expected to forfeit territory, which is real, for promises that it will be left alone, which are just talk. Whether or not his position is reasonable, declarations of inflexibility are unlikely to warm the attitudes of his opposite numbers...