Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a growing Syrian alignment with Iran, a threat to Iraq, a threat to the Persian Gulf states, to Saudi Arabia, to the collective interests of the moderate Arab world. The moderate Arab world shares a strategic consensus-that's what I was talking about last year when you fellows were so skeptical. Of course the consensus is constantly butting up against the Arab-Israeli dispute, but it's a new factor of increasing significance, which one hopes can be used to ameliorate historic problems...
That happened last November. Previously, the Reagan Administration's cornerstone of its Mideast strategy (insofar as one could be divined) involved an all-out attack on Lybia's Muammar Qaddifi. Saudi Arabia, obviously very impressed with the tacit quid pro quos which attend a bilateral arms deal, obliged by restoring diplomatic relations with Libya. And when Weinberger arrived in Saudi Arabia earlier this year, he negotiated all night to get the Saudis to sign a communique supporting the much-heralded anti-Soviet consensus. Through perserverance, Weinberger won a remarkable concession: While the Saudis resisted signing the communique, they agreed that...
Instead, the one issue that unites Arabs is a common hatred of Israel, apparently reinforced by a common fear of the PLO. Jordan and Lebanon have suffered from the PLO's presence, with Hussein scarred and Lebanon gutted. Syria and Saudi Arabia have no desire to follow in those menacing footsteps. With the Palestinian problem solved through the involvement of Jordan, Egypt. Israel and the PLO, the common fear of the PLO may attenuate. But the internal difficulties of these Arab regimes and the growing pan-Islamic tide led by Iran will not simply disappear. Neither, will Israel, nor presumably...
...receives petrodollar funds from Saudi Arabia. Libya and Kuwait which total about $500 million annually--excluding private subsidies to different PLO factions and military equipment. But that does not erase the fact that Palestinians live in camps or that no Arab country wants PLO influence imported. A PLO representative in the group's New York U.N. Mission, who spoke last week on the condition of anonymity, ingenuously acknowledged that the PLO's relations with Egypt. Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Iran are rocky. "We agree on the general end--the establishment of a Palestinian state-but we disagree over...
...religious communities. Since the reunification of Jerusalem in 1967, Muslim control of the city mosques has been diligently respected. Had there been Israeli sentries at the entrance of the Dome of the Rock perhaps the tragedy could have been averted. Pilgrims from all over the Muslim world, including Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Jordan-nations at war with Israel-are offered unlimited access to their holy places. And the Israeli government has even denied Jews the right to pray near the holy Temple Mount-which lies beneath the Dome of the Rock-in order to avoid confrontation...