Word: arab
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...record as being for a political solution to the conflict by swapping territory for peace. At this moment, there are some 20 peace and civil rights organizations active in Israel. So far as we know, no such organization exists among the Palestinians, or for that matter, in any Arab nation. Such has been the record for 40 years...
...referendum proposes unilateral action on the part of the United States against her ally in order to impose a solution, without pressuring the Arab nations, or the Soviet Union, to do the same for their ally. That is grossly unfair, and it plays into the hands of the annexationists on the Israel side and the rejectionists on the Palestinian side...
...Arab countries, including such moderate states as Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, have rallied behind Iraq, charging the U.S. press with overdramatizing the situation. These states, preoccupied with the threat posed to them by Iran's fundamentalist regime, are wary of undermining Iraq at a critical stage in the cease-fire. Moreover, no Arab state is eager to antagonize Iraq, which has the strongest army in the region. The Arabs also sympathize with Baghdad's contention that a U.N. investigation would set a dangerous precedent...
Arafat hinted at two possible courses of action for his organization: proclaim a Palestinian state in the Israeli-held Arab territories, or advocate a U.N.-backed mandate in them after Israeli withdrawal. But a final decision, he said, must await the forthcoming meeting of the 451-member Palestine National Council, for which no date has yet been announced...
...main rebel leaders, Masoud Barzani of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan and Jellal Talibani of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, accused Iraq of committing genocide against the Kurds, a non-Arab Muslim people who make up about 20% of Iraq's 17 million population. After U.S. intelligence agencies confirmed that Iraq was using chemical weapons once again, Secretary of State George Shultz last week delivered a searing protest in a 50-minute meeting at the State Department with Saadoun Hammadi, Iraq's Foreign Affairs Minister. And the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would impose economic sanctions against Baghdad...