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| | Israeli Arab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Though they coexist as two self-segregated communities, over the years Jewish and Arab Israelis have come to accept each other, acknowledging the uniqueness and aspirations of each community and participating in a growing number of joint endeavors. | | | Christian Israeli Arabs comprise about 9% of the Israeli Arab population, and reside mostly in the north, Nazareth having the largest Christian Arab population. | | | Since 2001, a growing number [25] of Israeli Arabs have participated in terror acts against Israeli civilians: On September 9, 2001 was the first (and only) Israeli Arab suicide bomber attack, on a group of soldiers and civilians disembarking a train in the Nahariya station, killing 3 people and wounding at least 90. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Arab
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| | The Chronicle: 7/26/2002: Why We Should Not Boycott Israeli Academics |
| | Israeli universities have Arab-Israeli students and have conducted hundreds of joint projects with their counterparts in the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia. | | | Then one of the invited conference participants, himself an Israeli living in the United States, sent out an e-mail message saying that he would avoid the conference and urging others to do so too. | | | Israeli academics tend to be left of center, and finding one who expresses something other than deep distaste for Sharon is no easy task. |
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http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i46/46b01301.htm
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| | The Promise of Arab Liberalism |
| | But when the Arab participants drafted a final communiqué for the press conference that included mild criticisms of U.S. policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a MEPI representative compelled a last-minute change in the schedule, ensuring that the women were not in attendance at the right time to present their communiqué. | | | Many of the programs in MEPI's other three "pillars"—economic reform, educational reform, and women's empowerment—are worthy development projects, and many will no doubt improve the quality of life for Arab men, women, and children. | | | Some Arab liberal activists are lawyers, professors, and journalists challenging the de facto political rules by demanding enforcement of the rules as stated in their postcolonial constitutions. |
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http://www.brookings.edu/views/articles/fellows/wittes20040701.htm
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| | Yehuda Shenhav: Jews from Arab Countries and the Palestinian Right for Return |
| | The Arab past of the Mizrahi Jews threatened to affect the coherence of the homogeneous Israeli nation and to blur the boundary between Jews and Arabs. | | | The objection of non-Israeli Jews to the symbolic use of their property was regarded by the Israeli Foreign Ministry and WOJAC as both threatening the jurisdiction of the State and sharpening the distinction between the two poles. | | | In this project the Jews in the Islamic lands were accorded a central demographic role. |
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http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/MEPP/PRRN/PAPERS/shenhav2.htm
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| | Free Lebanon - Assad, Nasser and the Problem of Tradition |
| | He fully participated in the 1973 attack on Israel that was to redress the balance of power between the Arabs and Israelis. | | | While the Western media obsesses over the impact of Assads death on the Arab-Israeli relationship, his death and life represents a far more interesting prism through which to view the changing landscape of the Arab world itself. | | | Assads life passed through the phases of one of the most important movements to have swept the Arab world secular, pan-Arab socialism. |
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http://www.generalaoun.org/july1-12.html
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| | Essay: Arab and Christian |
| | Israeli Arab Christians sometimes sneer at Bethlehemites as “internationals” whose Palestinian patriotism is insufficiently displayed, but Joshua Hammer’s book A Season in Bethlehem makes clear just how tough Palestinian militants have made it for Christians in the Bethlehem-Beit Jala-Beit Sahour triangle, the home to 70 percent of the West Bank’s Christian population. | | | Arab Christians, he says, are a community of faith and tradition. | | | So, while there is considerable support, in the oriental Catholic churches at least, for an Arab Christian identity, there are significant pockets of resistance and, in the case of the Assyrians, persecution for refusal to assimilate. |
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http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2005a/031105/031105j.php
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| | Dove's Eye View: Culture |
| | The play, which debuted at the respected Cameri Theatre last week, is the creation of its cast, a mix of Israeli Arab and Jewish actors who drew on real life scenes from the conflict, including some from their personal experiences. | | | In one scene, Yousef Sweid, an Arab Israeli who grew up in Haifa, plays the role of a senior Israeli officer overseeing the cover-up of an army shooting of a Palestinian boy. | | | When Israeli soldiers opened an exhibit this month documenting some of their own misdeeds while serving in the tense West Bank city of Hebron, they caused a brief stir. |
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http://bedouina.typepad.com/doves_eye/culture
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| | "The Other Refugees: Jews of the Arab World" by George E. Gruen |
| | The Jews that remained within the confines of other Arab states after the mass exoduses of the late 1940s and early 1950s experienced periods of marked hardship, violence and discrimination interspersed with periods of relative quiet, mirroring the ebb and flow of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the domestic political and economic situations. | | | As a result of these events, the Jews of Arab countries in effect became political refugees, that is, persons who had a well-founded fear of persecution and consequently fled untenable, often life-threatening, political situations in their countries of origin. | | | In the multi-ethnic and multi-religious Ottoman Empire -- a "world state" of 400 years duration -- Jews had enjoyed a large measure of autonomy in their communal and religious life. |
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http://www.jcpa.org/jl/jl102.htm
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| | Jewish Post of New York Online - News - Israel: Are the Israeli Arabs a Trojan Horse |
| | For many years, Israeli Arabs used to say: "We are Arab-Israeli." Of course they fought for their rights and protested against injustice and especially when they claimed that Israel or Israelis stole their lands. | | | Jewishpost of NY Are the Israeli Arabs a Trojan Horse | | | This party has a long record of supporting peace and the civil rights of the Israeli Arabs. |
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http://www.jewishpost.com/jp0509/jpn0509b.htm
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| | Resources and articles on Israeli Arabs |
| | The New Israelis: The Arabs of Israel (Part 2) | | | Once the Israeli Arabs had re-encountered their Palestinian brethren in the territories taken by Israel in the Six Day War, the former undertook a lengthy and complex process of redefining their national identity, simultaneous with the consolidation of an economic infrastructure. | | | The Adva Center (Adva means ripple) is an Israeli non-partisan, independent action-oriented policy analysis center, founded in 1991 by activists from three social movements: the movement for equal rights for Arab citizens, the movement for equality for Mizrahi Jews, and the feminist movement. |
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http://www.wzo.org.il/en/resources/expand_subject.asp?id=151
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| | The Head Heeb: Two ways to be an Arab Jew |
| | That's part of it, I think, but she may also be using "Arab Jew" in the same sense as "African- American." One of Shohat's running themes is her perception that the Israeli state has constructed a concept of Jewish nationality in which Ashkenazic identity predominates and Mizrahi identity is subordinated. | | | When Shohat talks of "Arab Jews" she is (quite consciously, I think) conflating these, thus implying that which all Jews have always known to be false -- the nationalist conceit that, unlike current settler countries, the "old countries" were ethnically homogeneous -- and thereby aligning herself with those of the fellow-citizens-of-the-Mosaic-faith persuasion. | | | Her use of "Arab Jew" is in some respects an assertion of a distinct identity within the Jewish people - in other words, a fairly standard expression of Mizrahi identity politics (albeit possibly carving out an Arab subset of Mizrahi identity). |
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http://headheeb.blogmosis.com/archives/019749.html
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| | Israeli literature in English |
| | To be sure, this is a small segment of Israeli society: the Israeli intelligentsia, represented by Professor Yochanan Rivlin and his wife, Hagit, a district judge, who live in Haifa, as well as educated Arabs in Galilee villages whose existence is circumscribed by the rules of occupation. | | | The threat of violence, while acknowledged by everyone, is not in the forefront of the plot, which is more concerned with the complacency of intelligent Israeli Jews in the face of the plight of their Arab neighbors. | | | I invite you to enjoy this part of Israeli culture and to take a look at this new list of translated books. |
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http://www.israelemb.org/la/culture/books/BooksOct22.htm
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| | War Liberal |
| | Arab foreign ministers issued a rebuke to the Bush administration today, saying the 22-nation Arab League stood behind the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat as a freedom fighter whose struggle against Israeli occupation is "legitimate national resistance" and could not be equated with terrorism. | | | And you should be happy that Secretary Powell is willing to talk to the Israelis on your behalf -- and make no mistake, he's there on your behalf. | | | Israelis Move Into Bethlehem; Palestinians Hide in Church |
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http://warliberal.blogspot.com/2002_03_31_warliberal_archive.html
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| | Culture Gets in the Way - Middle East Quarterly - September 1994 |
| | Israelis have long insisted on direct negotiations with the Arab states. | | | Thus, when Israelis ask Asad to define peace and to make a pacific gesture, they in effect inquire about his ethical credentials, whether he shares their vision of a perfectible world. | | | The Arabic word dughri means honest, honorable, and true to the facts; in Hebrew dugri has come to mean honest in the sense of being true to oneself and represents an entire ethic of sincerity. |
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http://www.meforum.org/article/148
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| | Arab-Israeli Conflict Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
| | Furthermore, Israel has charged that Palestinian refugees were neglected by most Arab nations, whereas Jewish refugees were integrated into Israeli society, and that this neglect is the true cause of the poverty and misery experienced by the residents of those camps, not their flight or expulsion from Israel as the Palestinians believe. | | | Israel's existence as a Jewish state and the future of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights are at the center of the Arab-Israeli conflict. | | | Israel continues to refuse to consider large-scale resettlement of Palestinian refugees and points to the continued refusal of the Arab nations to compensate Israeli Jews of Arab origin, many of whom were driven out of their home countries after facing the expropriation of their property. |
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http://www.aplaceinthesun.com/encyclopedia/Arab-Israeli_conflict
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| | Jerusalem Post Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World |
| | Combined with the fact that the number of Israeli Arabs involved in terrorism rose significantly during those same years it would be only natural to jump to the conclusion that the million-plus Israeli Arab minority had been irrevocably radicalized by these events. | | | By It is common knowledge that the violent anti-Israel uprising by thousands of young Israeli Arab men along roads and in towns throughout the north in October 2000 in conjunction with the outbreak of the intifada in the territories set back the process of Arab integration into Israel by at least a generation. | | | There is no sense in having the Israeli establishment try to impose such an alternative leadership from the outside. |
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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1102220769343&p=1006953079865
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| | Middle East News & World Report Official Website |
| | Occupied Palestine, Israel -- Samir Kantar, the Lebanese held hostage in Israel urged the new Lebanese government to free him from his Israeli captors. | | | The barrier leaves four Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem, with some 60,000 residents, on the West Bank side, while including the largest Jewish West Bank settlement, Maaleh Adumim with close to 30,000 people, on the Jerusalem side. | | | Kantar, is accused of fighting Israeli troops in northern Palestine has been in Israeli prison for the last 26 years. |
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http://www.middleeastnews.com
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| | The Mizrahi in Israeli Literature and Cinema |
| | Convenient ethnic caricatures in Israeli and foreign films projected onto the big screen many of the same colonial pretensions that have factored into the real-life political and cultural displacement of Arab-Jews in Israel. | | | Forget Baghdad combines a critical discussion of the clichéd cinematic portrayal of “the Jew” and “the Arab” over the last century with a biographical depiction of how these stereotypes affected the lives of four remarkable Iraqi-Jewish communists who immigrated to Israel in the early 1950s. | | | The highest-grossing Israeli film ever, Turn Left at the End of the World takes us back to 1969, where two immigrant families, one Moroccan, the other Indian, become unlikely neighbors in a tiny village in the middle of the Negev desert. |
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http://menic.utexas.edu/menic/cmes/Events/mizrahicinema05.html
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| | Arab Culture and Language Resources |
| | From slumber to awakening : culture and identity of Arab Israeli literati / Mishael Maswari Caspi, Jerome David Weltsch. | | | Arab women novelists : the formative years and beyond / Joseph T. Zeidan. | | | America in an Arab mirror : images of America in Arabic travel literature : an anthology, 1895-1995 / edited by Kamal Abdel-Malek. |
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http://www.lib.umich.edu/area/Near.East/ArabCultureLang.html
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| | Israeli Culture |
| | A native Israeli, Professor Maoz has served as an advisor on Arab-Israeli relations to prime ministers Yitzchak Rabin and Shimon Peres Preceding these terms he was the Advisor on Arab Affairs to Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and the Assistant-Advisor on Arab Affairs in Israel to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. | | | Since the establishment of the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, in 1906, Israeli visual culture has maintained a complex relationship to the Zionist ideology of national Jewish revival in the land of Israel. | | | The winner of numerous literary and humanitarian prizes, he is president of the Israeli Association for Human Rights and the author of eight novels. |
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http://www.israelcentersf.org/culture/2003-2004/israelat55_lectureseries.asp
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| | Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and his "Culture War" in Israel by Omar Kamil |
| | Apparently, the goal of rabbi Yosef's culture war is to bring the Israeli public, both religious and secular, to recognize Sephardi culture as a new ideology and social order in Israel. | | | The third counterculture is that of the Arab minority using the Arabic language. | | | The cultural gap was supposed to close with the modernization of the Sephardim, meaning their integration into the mainstream Israeli culture. |
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http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/shas_culture_war.html
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| | Amazon.com: Keys to the Garden : New Israeli Writing: Books: Ammiel Alcalay |
| | Mizrahis (Israelis whose families immigrated from the Levant, Turkey, Iran, India and the Arab World), though a numerical majority, have continually been treated as a minority in Israeli society and their artistic and literary achievements have been overshadowed and marginalized by those in the mainstream. | | | The writers were born, or their families come from, Turkey, Iran, India, and the Arab world. | | | Yet, within Israeli society itself, a sense of discord between mainstream Jews and mizrahis is also in evidence and this collection brings some of that to light. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0872863085?v=glance
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| | Talk:Palestinian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Even after the Arab-Israeli wars, when Arab grovernements suddenly began speaking to westerners (in English and French) about "Palestinans", they sometimes admitted publicly to their own public (in Arabic) that Palestinians were a total fiction, created solely as a way to fight the existence of the Jewish state in Israel. | | | but even if it was, there is no reason to believe this interrupted their Arabization; many notable Arab tribes, particularly in the northwest and the south, were Jewish at Muhammad's time, as Dhu Nuwas and Samaw'al ibn Adiya illustrate. | | | Also early forms of the word "Arabian" denoted people of the Syrian desert who are not identical to the later Arab nation as we understand the word today which only emerged in Late Antiquity in the Arabian peninsula (a comparison usually given is that similarly the "Romanians" are not the same nation as the "Romans"). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Palestinian
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| | Bar-Ilan University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | While the Israeli academic circles are identified with a dovish attitude to the Arab-Israeli conflict, in Bar-Ilan, things are different. | | | Bar-Ilan is unique among Israeli universities in that it has many Americans in the Israeli university program who make up a big part of the student population. | | | Bar-Ilan University (BIU, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן) is a university in Ramat Gan, Israel. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_University_Bar-Ilan
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| | ICMIS Home Page: The International Coalition for Missing Israeli Soldiers |
| | Gallup polls have demonstrated that ICMIS represents the broadest consensus in Israeli society in demanding that the MIA issue be resolved first in any peace negotiations with Israel's Arab neighbors. | | | Over the last seven years Israel has released thousands of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails -- the time has now come for all of Israel's captive sons to return home. | | | The International Coalition for Missing Israeli Soldiers (ICMIS) has worked tirelessly both in Israel and abroad, on behalf of the MIAs and their families. |
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| | The Bulge on the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount Becomes Larger |
| | During the demonstration they incited the Arabs against the Israeli sovereignty on the Temple Mount and in Jerusalem and the land of Israel. | | | The Temple Mount Faithful Movement sent a message of protest to the Israeli authorities and asked them why they did not prevent this demonstration which again desecrated the holy site of the G-d of Israel. | | | On 27 August 2002, the archaeologists of the Israeli Antiquities Authority warned that the southern wall of the Temple Mount is in great imminent danger of collapsing. |
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http://www.templemountfaithful.org/News/20020829.htm
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| | Hebrew at Carleton |
| | In the Israeli literature, we will examine modes of representing Palestinian peoples and their interactions with Israeli Jewish citizens, and ways in which the latter grapple with forging personal and national identities in the region; the Arab Middle East. | | | She specializes in contemporary Israeli literature and society, drawing on a combined background in Comparative Literature (Israeli and Spanish), Hebrew language, and International Relations. | | | Classroom activities involve popular Israeli music, radio programs and advertisements, and films, and will introduce students to different aspects of contemporary Israeli culture and life in the Middle East. |
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http://www.acad.carleton.edu/curricular/hebr
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| | FrontPage magazine.com :: Eurabia and Euro-Arab Antisemitism by Bat Yeor |
| | Arab and Islamic anti-Israeli propaganda, barely disguised in academic and cultural packaging, was disseminated by organs of the EAD operating under the highest State authorities and imposed in universities, the press, and cultural centers. | | | Encouragement of European institutions either at University level or other levels that are concerned with the teaching of the Arabic language and the diffusion of Arabic and Islamic culture. | | | It is a powerful instrument of Arabic lobbying against Israel. |
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12857
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| | RadioHazak |
| | Rotem maintains that the Israeli hip-hop community has a rare tolerance for diverse opinions: “I hear many voices,” he says, “from the right and the left, from the Arab side and the Jewish side.” | | | Between April 25-28, youngsters and their parents will be able to gain some insight into what makes Reshef's cartoonist persona tick, when he displays some of his prized comics books - taken from his 7,000-plus collection - at the Childhood and Family Collections Festival at the Israeli Children's Museum in Holon. | | | From his first and last names, both of which could pass for non-Israeli sounding, to his choice of material, to his anarchistic sense of humor (supported by his life-long friend, comedian-filmmaker Uri Zohar, who later became a distinctly unfunny Orthodox rabbi), Arik offered us a vital connection to Euromerican culture. |
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http://www.radiohazak.com
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| | On Israeli Culture |
| | The Israeli Arab and the Arab in General | | | To make a journey into Israeli culture is to take a trip into the furthest depths of the psyche of its people – precisely what this essay aims to do. | | | Israeli culture is fascinating, but defies easy definition. |
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http://www.jafi.org.il/education/culture/onisraeli
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