Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jewish extremists were just as determined to make their point. A group of settlers, accompanied by a deputy Cabinet minister, moved into six houses and apartment buildings in Arab East Jerusalem to send the government a message that no retreat would be tolerated from the occupied lands, particularly the Holy City. If that position makes it more difficult to convene a peace conference -- well, said some far-right members of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's Likud-led coalition, so much the better. The government, however, branded the move a "mistake," removed the settlers from five of the houses, and shuffled...
...Washington sources disclosed that Syrian officials had told Baker at the end of September that they had serious doubts about participating in the broad regional talks scheduled to discuss such topics as water rights, disarmament and protection of the environment -- to reach in effect a general reconciliation between the Arabs and Israel. These negotiations -- which also include the Gulf Cooperation Council, representing states such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait that have no territorial controversies with Israel -- are to run concurrently with the bilateral talks between Israel and its adversaries on such matters as disputed territory, including the West Bank...
...Gal/Liat Dror and Amiel Malale Dance-part of the Israeli/Jewish-American Dance Festival. "Equus Asinus" explores the historical role of this beast of burden in Israeli society and presents it as a metaphor for the relationships and tensions between Jewish and Arab communities. At the Emerson Majestic Theatre at 219 Tremont St. in Boston. Call 492-7578. Thursday and Friday...
Sooner or later, Israel will face a stark choice: either it can have Arab lands or it can have Arab markets; either it can absorb the West Bank or it can absorb the Soviet Jews...
...Algiers last week spoke with gloomy resignation. "There is a new reality -- international, regional and Palestinian," said Farouk Kaddoumi, the Palestine Liberation Organization's foreign minister. That reality, most of the delegates agreed, is one in which the Palestinian people can no longer look either to Moscow or to Arab states for strong political and financial support...