Word: communalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking to about 25 people over breakfast at Dudley House, Zamir, who represents 70,000 members from about 166 of the communal settlements, said that in order to survive, the kibbutz movement requires a social, political, and economic climate that Begin's coalition does not provide. Under all the governments of the Labor party, which was in power for almost 30 years until Begin was elected in 1977, that climate existed, he added...
...that shouldn't come as any surprise. Formed to co-opt student protest, the Faculty Council succeeded admirably, even increasing its authority after student concerns shifted from communal good to individual advancement. The danger for students is that someday, they may wake up to find all their power usurped. The greater danger, for administrators, is that they may arise to find a student body angered by forays like those of the Faculty Council--and prepared to re-enact the struggles of the late 1960s against forces that today seem eerily the same...
...some areas. Despite its inconveniences and irritations, which prompt many people to try to avoid it, jury service nevertheless can be, and often is, the most rewarding civic duty that average citizens get a chance to perform, far more so than voting or paying taxes. It is our communal enactment of the democratic idea...
...year, they had been concerned that the Pope's controversial leadership was leading the Christian community into serious trouble with Egypt's newly assertive Muslim majority. The climate of sectarian strife had resulted in several violent incidents in the past three months, including three days of communal rioting in a Cairo slum housing project that caused at least 17 deaths...
...Matta puts it: "All of us are in this dilemma, [because] Muslims feel Shenouda is a threat to Islam and the Koran. He was working against the line of the government and moderate Muslims." Most Copts feel that Shenouda's ouster is a tolerable price to pay for communal peace...