Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people so widely scattered, the Palestinians remain remarkably cohesive. One reason is that they have been driven inward by enmity toward them, not only on the part of Israelis but also on the part of other Arabs. Although Arab governments support Palestinian organizations-Saudi Arabia alone contributed $26 million last year-their motives are at least as much anti-Israeli as pro-Palestinian. Indeed, the P.L.O. cause was probably strongest in the Arab world after the disastrous Six-Day War in 1967, when Arab armies had been roundly defeated and the underground Palestinians emerged as the most heroic and effective...
...time when Jaffa itself has disappeared before the encroachments of Jewish Tel Aviv, and whatever orange groves remain are almost blotted out by industrial development. But the Palestinian dream has been kept alive, thanks to sophisticated political work by Arafat and other Palestinian leaders and the willingness of Arab governments to support (however grudgingly) a nearly lost cause...
...Palestinian state on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Later he joined with the Soviet Union in endorsing "the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people." Through it all, the White House has seemed-to Jews at least-to be leaning far more heavily on Israel than on any of the Arab states...
...with the delivery of four times that number of F-15s to Saudi Arabia, and 50 of the less advanced but also deadly F-5E Tiger II jets to Egypt. By bundling them in a single export package. Carter has made it exceedingly difficult for Congress to block the Arab sales without preventing the Israeli delivery as well. This has infuriated many Jews, who see the arrangement as gravely jeopardizing Israeli security...
...indication of the depths to which relations between Carter and the Jews have sunk is a nasty squabble over Carter's chief foreign affairs adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Jewish leaders blame him for much of what they see as the pro-Arab tilt in Administration policy. Brzezinski has aggravated the tension by charging that the Jewish community is trying to smear him as antiSemitic. Retorts Rabbi Alexander Schindler. chairman of the Conference of Presidents: "That's an outrageous overreaction on his part. Nobody called him anti-Semitic or implied that. Disagreement is not racist." His conference colleagues back Schindler...