Word: arabize
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...Israel, every street battle has to be tactical and defensive, requiring responses aimed at protecting lives and property. For Israel, every casualty, even those among the Palestinians, is a loss. For the Palestinians, every clash is strategic and offensive, increasing the pressure on Israel, building support in the Arab world and, with every Israeli military response, affording the opportunity to further isolate Israel from its liberal, democratic and idealistic supporters. For the Palestinians, every casualty, even their own, can be a strategic gain...
...they see Barak giving empty ultimatums. Why shouldn't Arafat keep fighting? He has the Security Council, the Western media and the Arab world behind him. In front of him lies an Israel in shock, dazed and confused by the Barak paradox. No dove ever wanted or pursued peace more fervently. And what does he get? War. Neville Chamberlain was equally perplexed on Sept...
With the peace process falling apart, the last thing Israel needs is civil war. But that is what it almost had in its Arab neighborhoods and towns during the past two weeks. Israel's Arab minority rioted in the Galilee and in major cities like Jaffa and Haifa. Jewish mobs responded with attacks of their own. "Coexistence between Arabs and Jews in Israel has started to collapse," says Salah Tarif, a Druze Arab member of Prime Minister Ehud Barak's One Israel party...
...problem is that the 1 million citizens Israel calls Israeli Arabs tend to think of themselves as Palestinians who happen to live in Israel, not as Israelis of Arab descent. It's a crucial distinction and has always been a potential trigger. At the best of times it is a source of friction. In the midst of last week's chaos, it was a spark for some real tragedy...
...member of parliament from Nazareth, advocates an end to Israel's Jewish character in favor of "a state of all its citizens." He rushed home to evacuate his pregnant wife and two-year-old daughter, and at midnight a crowd gathered outside his home and stoned it. "Imagine if Arabs had attacked the house of a Jewish member of parliament," says Bishara. "They would have shot them. At my house, the police were just trying to persuade the mob nicely to go home." And there were other stories. In Tel Aviv, a mob torched a restaurant after locking its Arab...