Word: arabized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...travel to Syria, the place of origin of much of my family heritage, and a place where Jews are still unwelcome. It is important to remember the tragedy of the Jewish refugees as the students in the Harvard Nakba Committee commemorate the 1948 dispossession of Palestinian Arabs from Israel next week. While the Palestinian refugee crisis is a tragedy in its own right, the committee has chosen to commemorate the dispossession of approximately 750,000 Palestinian Arabs by adopting the reckless, revisionist history of Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, an apologist for terror (he once stated...
...dictates that Israel should be willing to negotiate its own existence with Hamas while Hamas should be allowed to target Israeli civilians unimpeded. Were Hamas willing to end its boycott of Israel, end its call for genocide, recognize Israel’s right to exist in peace with its Arab neighbors, and renounce violence, it would find a ready and able peace partner in Jerusalem. However, to adapt a statement made by now-President Shimon Peres about the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), “A Hamas which renounces terrorism and cancels those clauses in its covenant which call...
...Following Israel’s stunning 1967 military victory in six days against six Arab states bent on its destruction, then-Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan waited for the proverbial phone to ring, only to be disappointed that his Arab counterparts still clung to their bellicose calls to “drive the Jews into the sea.” It took several more lost wars and decades of violence for Egypt, Jordan, and the PLO to engage in peace negotiations. Perhaps all Israel can do is wait for Hamas to fully grasp the futility of its immoral and failed...
...These are simply clichés, of course; Arab traders drive a hard bargain for the same reason everyone else does: money. And anyone who thinks that Western capitalism is inherently transparent should try making sense of the subprime mortgage derivatives mess. Still, there are some lessons worth knowing on how to buy rugs...
...McCarthy said when asked about how he came up with material for the film. “Many of the things that Tarek says were out of the mouths of men I heard there.” McCarthy said that he tried to penetrate New York’s Arab enclaves to get a feel for the culture and make his film as close to life as possible. “I spent a lot of time hanging with the Arab community in New York City,” he said. “It’s just like...