Word: hebron
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...attribute the new Islamic movement not only to the antileftist backlash but to a more profound disillusionment with aspects of Western culture, such as movies, drinking and the changing relationship between the sexes, that have been imported into the West Bank since 1967. Says Ribhi Abu-Sinanah, dean of Hebron Polytechnic: "The Arab countries have been open to Western culture. This openness has resulted in nothing positive. We have been defeated." In general agreement, an Israeli political scientist remarks: "To some extent this phenomenon is the result of a widespread despair. The Palestinians don't want us, they...
After the Six-Day War in June 1967, Dothan noticed that Arab antiquity shops in the Old City of Jerusalem-just conquered by Israeli troops-were stocked with ancient Egyptian artifacts. When Dothan asked where they came from, the dealers specified Hebron, in the mountains south of Jerusalem. That was clearly a tall tale; some of the artifacts-jewelry, clay masks, even coffins-still bore grains of yellow Mediterranean sand...
...their demands for the support of the Israeli authorities, and the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin has been eager to oblige. When extremist followers of Rabbi Moshe Levinger, founder of the Greater Israel Movement, illegally attempted to re-establish a Jewish presence in the Arab city of Hebron after an absence of more than 40 years, Begin allowed them to remain. In January, after a Jewish student was killed by a sniper's bullet in Hebron, the Israeli government approved the building of two religious schools in Hebron's former Jewish quarter...
Those decisions led directly to more violence; six Jews were killed and 16 were wounded, presumably by Arab terrorists, outside the Hadassah clinic in Hebron. Among the victims was a follower of Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the fanatical Kach movement and former head of the Jewish Defense League. Vowed Kahane: "Two teeth for a tooth!" Israeli authorities later arrested and imprisoned him under an administrative detention order. In the meantime, Jerusalem police discovered an arms cache on the roof of a Jewish religious school in the Old City. The investigation of the bombings focused on both Kach...
...Your former Defense Minister deported two Palestinian mayors and a Muslim religious leader after the Hebron slaying of Jewish worshipers. Now that you are serving as Defense Minister as well as Prime Minister, do you condone such actions...