Word: gur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evacuated Bedouins could well have nowhere to go at all for some time. The four new proposed industrial settlements have yet to be built, and the government has no plans for temporary housing. Shrugs Benjamin Gur-Arieh, Premier Menachem Begin's adviser on Arab affairs: "They can double up in their tents until the villages are ready. They're used to it." Opposition to the law is gathering force in the Knesset, but critics of the government are more concerned about the Bedouins' inability to appeal than about the terms of compensation. Says Begin's former...
...team of psychologists thinks it has the answer. Writing in the journal Science, Harold Sackeim of Columbia and Ruben Gur and Marcel Saucy of the University of Pennsylvania report that the left side of the face is not perceived well by a viewer. The team bases its conclusion on split-brain research, which shows that the right hemisphere of the brain has predominant control over the left side of the face and that the left hemisphere governs the right side. Other studies indicate that the right hemisphere of the brain is better than the left in recognizing faces and processing...
...Gur added, however, that he doubts the readiness of many Arabs to live in peace, "to accept us as a political entity in the Middle East, to acknowledge our right to live as free people in that land...
...early for Arabs and Israelis to discuss the final borders in the disputed areas, because most Arabs insist on a return to the 1967 boundaries, which would not be sound under today's "conditions," Gur said...
...were never fighting only our wars. We were fighting for the future and the possibility of Jews to live in Israel--whether they should find themselves there through choice or force," Gur added...