Sentence examples for arab rejection from inspiring English sources

The students of the second Rabbi Kook took advantage of the Arab rejection, and set out for the hills.

When Israel reluctantly re-engages, how are we to reasonably expect real progress in the face of Arab rejection?

But the causes were the united Arab rejection of a Jewish state and the failed attempt to destroy that state at its birth.

Despite persistent Arab rejection of Jewish identity, the Zionist leadership recognized that the Palestinian Arabs were a people with sovereign rights.

Israel says the real problem is Arab rejection of its existence in any borders at all and the rise of violent, radical Islam backed by Iran.

Amr Moussa, the secretary general of the Arab League, told reporters in Cairo on Thursday that "there is a total Arab rejection to the issue of deportation".

The immediate cause of the problem was the Arabs' rejection in 1947 of UN General Assembly Resolution 181 -- which would have partitioned the British Mandate area into an Arab state and a Jewish state -- and the resulting war started by the Arabs in the hope of destroying the nascent Israeli state.

Even if one thinks the settlements are bad politics, the Arab world's rejection of the 1947 two-state resolution and the United Nations' acquiescence in this rejection deprive both the United Nations and the Palestinian Authority the high moral ground from which to launch a diplomatic assault on Israel.

But Israelis also perceive in the response a deep-seated Arab and Muslim rejection of Israel's legitimacy as a Jewish state.

He described Mr. Moussa and his staff as "more Nasserite" — implying an older form of Arab nationalism and rejection of Israel — and said European interlocutors had told the Israelis, "Don't expect much from Amr Moussa".

But, just as the Arab world's rejection of the 1947 partition plan pushed Israeli leaders toward an even harsher view of their adversaries, Yasir Arafat's rejection of the peace proposals proffered by Ehud Barak in 2000 at Camp David and at Taba, Egypt, coupled with the second intifada, which followed, disillusioned Benny Morris to the point of embitterment.