Word: arab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't think we would solve the problem," he added. But he said continued discussion between Jews and Arab-Americans is useful because "Some Arabs and some Jews do agree on some issues...
Avriel Butovsky, of the New Jewish Agenda's Middle East Task Force and a graduate student at Harvard, said the conference's objective was for Jews and Arab-Americans to work together to change U.S. policy and influence opinion within their respective communities...
...increase awareness, participants said, would be to host lectures at high schools for students and their parents or pair members of Jewish and Arab-American communities. They added that both groups should jointly lobby the U.S. government to redefine its aid to Israel...
...think it's something very helpful, the fact that 40 Jews showed up to talk about this issue," Majed Tomeh, coordinator for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee said of the conference...
Moawad's election was a crucial step in a peace attempt brokered last month by the Arab League. The goal was to restore stability by giving Lebanon's Muslim majority greater powers in parliament and the Cabinet while reducing those of the Christian President. Under a new constitution, the President shares power with parliament, including the selection of a Cabinet that carefully balances Lebanon's religious sects. The U.N. Security Council, the U.S. and the European Community endorsed Moawad's efforts to form a government of national unity under this revised framework, and he had been making some progress despite...