Word: arab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wish the American people happiness and prosperity, and I wish for the Arab people and the American people to work together to make the hope of peace in our area a living reality...
...otherwise have more in common than either cares to admit. Hussein rules a rather shaky dynasty that was created by Western powers after World War I; Arafat is the strongest chieftain in a fragmented Palestinian movement that is principally held together by hatred of Israel-and distrust of other Arab rulers. Both have a genius for survival, a talent for accommodation...
...expelling the guerrillas from Jordan, the plucky little King (or P.L.K., as he is fondly known in some quarters) became an Arab pariah. Hussein was ignored at conferences, slighted when oil subsidies were handed out, finally humiliated at the Rabat summit of 1974, where he was stripped of the right to represent West Bank Palestinians (who still hold Jordanian citizenship) in future peace negotiations with Israel. Instead the Palestinians were given the right to negotiate over the status of Palestinian territory on the West Bank and in Gaza. Arafat meanwhile was lionized. He took his "guns and olive branch" liberation...
...Palestinians misjudged their strength and thereupon entered a losing military and political battle with Syria. They now find themselves dependent on moderate governments in Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile the irrepressible Hussein, who handled his humiliation at Rabat with particular grace, has re-emerged as a force in Arab peace negotiations. Today Hussein sits more securely on his throne, so much so that he has felt strong enough to advocate a Jordanian-Palestinian federation. Arafat is less secure but still a likely choice to head whatever Palestinian state emerges...
Generations of modern Egyptians [as well as others from] all over the Arab world have looked to America with interest and hope. There, in your new world, brave men with vision and faith have toiled to carve out of the wilderness a new civilization that fulfills the needs of man in freedom and the pursuit of happiness, away from the atmosphere of bigotry and domination that plagued Europe in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and obstructed its human experience. Your experiment of building what is now the oldest federal system where human beings and states are equal before...