Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short history, Israel has occupied portions of Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. It has bombed Iraq, invaded Lebanon and passively stood by while refugees were massacred. Yet not one leader has asked the obvious question: Why does Israel object to defensive weapons for Jordan and Saudi Arabia...
Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the U.S.: "Watching this recent campaign has made me a born-again monarchist...
...presidency, Israel administered a series of violent shocks to the Administration and to public opinion-its expanded policy of building settlements in the West Bank, its attack on June 7,1981, on the Iraqi nuclear reactor, its vigorous opposition to the sale of American AWACS to Saudi Arabia. As a result, the assumption that the U.S. would always unreservedly support Israel in a contest of interests with its Arab neighbors ceased to apply...
There had been a cessation of hostilities between the P.L.O. and Israel under an agreement brokered by our special Middle East envoy, Philip Habib, and Saudi Arabia. Begin interpreted the cessation of hostilities as universal and regarded any terrorist attack anywhere in the world, as well as the violation of any Israeli frontier, as a breach of the agreement meriting retaliation...
...such an operation in current circumstances. Begin interrupted. "Don't use those words, Sam!" he pleaded. But after he had consulted the Cabinet, Begin said he and his colleagues had decided to accept my request for restraint. At this delicate juncture, Caspar Weinberger, on a tour of Saudi Arabia, Oman and Jordan, was reported to have stated that the U.S. needed more than one I friend in the Middle East and that the Administration might provide F-16 fighters and mobile Hawk antiaircraft missiles to Jordan. The Israelis were outraged. Begin wrote to the President: "I do not understand...