Word: westing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Berlin Wall comes tumbling down and the two Germanies grow closer together, Germans will increasingly identify with one another and will grow resentful of years of forced separation. Surging German pride will slowly smooth over ideological divisions between East and West and increase pressure for reunification...
...reunified Germany aligned itself with NATO, the Soviet Union would fear an invasion from the West and would arm accordingly. Such fears would not be irrational. German armies have attacked the Soviet Union twice in the last 75 years by marching through Eastern Europe...
...situation would be no better if a reunified Germany chose neutrality. Since Warsaw Pact conventional forces already far outnumber NATO's in Europe, NATO's loss of its West German ally would necessitate a NATO arms buildup. Such a buildup would have the same destabilizing effects of the Warsaw Pact build up in the previous scenario...
Aruri said the guerrilla movement has also transformed the once profitable Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip into a major economic burden and created real borders between Israel and the territories...
Aruri was deported from the West Bank by Israeli authorities in August, 1989, and is in the United States on a tour sponsored by the human rights organization Amnesty International...