Word: arabia
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Ever since the signing of the Camp David accords, the Arab states have been bitterly divided. Most of them opposed Camp David but lacked the unity of purpose to present an alternative. Last year Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd proposed a peace plan that might, at least, have formed a basis for negotiation. In effect, the plan would offer Arab recognition, or at least acceptance, to Israel in return for Israeli withdrawal from Arab territory seized in the 1967 war. But, when presented to a pan-Arab summit conference in Fez, Morocco, last October, the proposal proved...
Ramindar Singh, a Nieman fellow from the Indian Express of New Delhi, said in response to Lewis that some foreign nations perceive Reagan as a war-monger and overtly aggressive. He added, "Reagan and Haig send shivers up our spine with statements about intervening in Saudi Arabia...
...people were attempting to intellectualize.) Other very intelligent people spent even more time discoursing on "winnable" nuclear war. The Middle East affords just one specific example of the 1981 tendency toward pointlessness. The United States, friend of democratic Israel, strikes a deal with authoritarian (or was it totalitarian) Saudi Arabia, avowed enemy of Israel, for the largest arms sale ever. The United States then makes hostility to authoritarian Libya the cornerstone of a vague Mideast policy. Democratic Israel grows distrustful of the democratic United States and takes provocative and uncalled-for action against authoritarian Syria. The United States then violates...
Though Reagan dominated domestic affairs, the same cannot be said of his handling of foreign policy issues. His strident anti-Soviet rhetoric increased cold war jitters. Using all his political wile the clout, the President won grudging Senate assent for the sale of AWACS radar planes to Saudi Arabia. The victory staved off what would have been a humiliating public defeat but did little to advance any coherent U.S. strategy for bringing peace to the Middle East...
...oppose the sale of jet fighters and other advanced weaponry to Taiwan, and only 21% favor such a transaction, even though 52% perceive the island republic as an ally we can "definitely trust." (The most trusted ally is Canada, with a 90% approval rating; the least trustworthy is Saudi Arabia, with 27%. The Camp David peace partners have virtually identical ratings: Israel 58%, Egypt...