Word: arabize
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...Harvard community immediately reacted to the escalating violence in the Middle East in October, as groups such as Harvard Hillel and the Society of Arab Students (SAS) held vigils mourning victims of violence and calling for peace in the region...
...Circumstances forced Arafat, by contrast, almost from the outset to engage in the underground politics of conspiracy - small groups of trusted insiders launching guerrilla attacks and melting back into the civilian population. Later, as the leader of an exiled Palestinian movement more often than not at odds with its Arab hosts, those methods kept Arafat alive and maintained the coherence of a movement attempting to represent a nation that straddled the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza and a diaspora scattered across the Arab world...
...fifth of June, the Israeli attack started and we were evacuated to a U.S. Air for base," he says. On June 6th, Arab mobs rose throughout the Middle East, and in Tripoli they began knifing Americans in the streets. All non-essential personnel were required to evacuate. "On the seventh of June, my family got on a plane and boarded for Rome. My happiest moment was seeing them on this plane...
...lately, Husseini had become more isolated. He was not on Arafat's negotiating teams. His primary concern had been mobilizing world opinion and Arab opinion against Jewish expansion in Jerusalem...
...Iraq has loudly resisted the new proposals and threatened to cut off discount oil supplies to any of its neighbors that go along with the new program, but sympathy for continued sanctions against Iraq is at a low ebb in the Arab world anyway - and the continuing Israeli-Palestinian violence, which has raised the anti-American temperature across the Arab world makes it even more difficult for Arab leaders to be seen to endorse new sanctions. But Russia, France and other U.N. Security Council members have also raised objections to many of the details in the U.S.-British proposal, rendering...