Word: arab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel, between various Arab regimes and--perhaps least visible--within the Arab nations themselves, there exist tense clashes of opinion and action, regarding specific internal social and political problems as well as the common dilemma of Palestine. The failure of diverse blueprints for settlement testifies to the multiplicity of demands, emotions, political platforms and ideological stances in the region--a diversity which non-Middle-Easterners have frequently tried to ignore...
...Arab world, increasing frustration with bad social conditions and with the insensitivity of big power politics has yielded new political groupings along the entire spectrum of political thought and action. Tareq Y. Ismael asserts in The Arab Left that one contributory element to this political polarization is the United States' refusal to recognize the aims and determination of the Palestinians. This is coupled with Washington's continued support for conservative Arab regimes. The tenacity of such regimes, the festering thorn of Israeli occupation, and American policy towards the Middle East in general have all fostered the growth of Arab leftist...
...delegates agreed to set up the nucleus of a permanent Afro-Arab organization and to hold a summit conference again in 1980. Both Uganda and Sudan offered their capitals as the site. Amin's Kampala is not quite what the Afro-Arabs had in mind. But, as one Arab League official put it, "a lot can happen in three years...
...minute they stood in solemn silence in memory of those who have died for the cause of Palestinian statehood. Then the delegates to the plenary session of the 178-member Palestinian National Council, which convened late last week in the Arab League's blue and green tiled headquarters in Cairo, got down to business. As the Palestinians' de facto parliament, the plenary was promising to be-as Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat had earlier described it-"one of the most important meetings in Palestinian history...
Although there is no chance that the council will heed Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's suggestion that it formally concede Israel's right to exist, the Palestinians now realize they risk losing the support of oil-rich Arab states if they do not soften their position. Wearing his usual cartridge belt and revolver, an unshaven Arafat outlined his opinions in an interview with TIME'S Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart and Correspondent Wilton Wynn in Beirut before taking off for the Afro-Arab summit in Cairo. Excerpts from the interview...