Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Sadat and Carter conferred in Washington, Algerian President Houari Boumedienne was host at another kind of summit taking place in Algiers. There the Arab leaders of the so-called steadfast states, who oppose Sadat's peace initiative, were trying to develop a new strategy of their own. As at a previous meeting in Tripoli, the results were minimal...
...Arabs from the nearby town of Turmus 'Aiya are understandably furious. When the settlers arrived a month ago, they blocked the road with stones. Israeli troops forced them to remove the roadblocks, but the anger remains. Arab children shake their fists at cars heading toward the settlement, as TIME'S Robert Slater discovered during a visit to Shiloh last week. The settlers have no telephones and must use one in an Arab cafe a mile away; when they do, they go armed...
...used in thermometers ?potentially dangerous to very young children but not to adults. Nonetheless, the tampered oranges were a shock to Europe, especially after it became known that they were fruits of political terrorism. In a letter to the West German government, an extremist group calling itself the Arab Revolutionary Army-Palestine Command claimed it had doctored the fruit to disrupt Israel's economy...
Leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization were embarrassed by what appeared to be a propaganda boomerang against them. They disavowed the Arab Revolutionary Army and denied that Palestinians had had anything to do with the fruits of terrorism...
Today Israel has a clear military superiority over any or all of its Arab neighbors. But any large-scale U.S. aid to Egypt would inevitably affect the current negotiations and reinforce the Israelis' concern about their future security. The poll that measured Begin's popularity also reported that 78% of all Israelis think that Sadat genuinely wants peace. But more than 60% believe that whatever Sadat's intentions, Israel will be obliged to fight another war within the next ten years...