Word: khatib
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most difficult of all Middle East problems. To the 100,000 Arabs of East Jerusalem?indeed, to Arabs everywhere?Jerusalem is the third-ranking of Islam's holy places (after Mecca and Medina) and the obvious capital of any Palestinian entity set up on the West Bank. Says Anwar Khatib, former governor of East Jerusalem under Jordanian rule: "Without safeguarding Arab sovereignty over East Jerusalem, all other proposals will not stand...
Three meetings have taken place between Israeli officers and representatives of Ahmed Khatib, leader of breakaway Moslem units of the Lebanese army that are generally friendly to the Palestine Liberation Organization. The meetings-the most recent was two weeks ago-are low key and mainly concerned with such mundane problems as what to do about stray flocks of sheep. But Israel's underlying message is clear. As long as Khatib's men do not help P.L.O. terrorists return to the border, the Lebanese troops will be safe from Israeli attack. With Khatib's tacit permission, Israeli combat...
...month besieged the Christian town of Qobayat. Some Christian troops commandeered helicopters and rushed to help relieve the town, further infuriating the Moslems. The Christian soldiers were also incensed by the growth of the self-styled Lebanese Arab Army, composed primarily of Moslem deserters and led by Lieutenant Ahmad Khatib, 33, who had served in the regular army for eleven years before deserting in January. Originally, his army numbered about 70 men and was confined to a lone command post in the Bekaa Valley, but it has grown nearly fourteenfold in the past two months and controls about a dozen...
...Khatib's basic appeal to Moslem soldiers is his charge-in part justified-that the Lebanese army is biased in favor of Christians. Only about 40% of the officers are Moslems, while they make up a disproportionately large share of the rank and file. Khatib wants the Lebanese constitution specifically to acknowledge the Arab character of the state; he also wants a reorganization of the army on a nonconfessional basis. Preoccupied with trying to maintain the cease-fire and stalemated by political bickering, the government paid little attention to Khatib and his growing band of rebels, even though...
Rabin's Labor-dominated coalition government easily won a confidence vote, 63 to 42; to demonstrate the Premier's intent, Israeli police moved into the West Bank to arrest and deport four Arafat sympathizers, including Arab Editor Ali Khatib, 54. At the same time, Israeli forces carried out a helicopter raid into Lebanon; they captured the headman of a village reportedly sympathetic to the fedayeen and took him back to Israel for interrogation...