Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel's Premier Menachem Begin prepared for his latest round of talks with President Carter in Washington this week, was whether the attack that Begin had launched to "sever the arm of iniquity" had also hopelessly complicated the already imperiled peace process in the Middle East. The outraged Arab states demanded immediate Israeli withdrawal, and the U.N. Security Council debated a U.S. proposal for an international peacekeeping force to be sent into Lebanon...
Israeli Premier has not been doing much to bring it about. Sadat could not possibly afford to appear to be selling out the other Arabs; to do so would be to lose the vital financial support he receives from Saudi Arabia and the other oil-rich states (to the tune of $2 billion to $4 billion a year). Sadat could take such action only if the P.L.O. and the other Arabs dealt themselves out, but he certainly could not do it at a time when the Israelis, quite apart from refusing to withdraw from the lands they already occupy...
...Israelis also wanted to "flex their muscle on the weaker links of Arab national contingency," and to end the current move toward national reconciliation in Lebanon, Maksoud said...
Maksoud, a Lebanese citizen who is currently a visiting professor at Georgetown University, was received enthusiastically by the predominantly Arab audience of about 150 at Science Center...
...momentum left over from Egyptian President Sadat's "sacred mission" is to move towards an Egyptian-Israeli accord. With prospects for successful negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians so bleak, such an accord is the best that can be hoped for at the moment. Egypt, so isolated in the Arab world already, would isolate itself some more; Israel would turn over various occupied territories...