Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your peace plan rests on the naive assumption that there is a continuity of policy in the Arab states. Today's government espousing peaceful coexistence is likely to be replaced by a volatile military dictatorship bent on a holy crusade to destroy Israel...
President Sadat has betrayed the Arab world and has, for the time being, been partly successful in deceiving the Egyptian people. I term his visit to Israel as his government's complete surrender to the Zionists. He is surely incapable of representing the Arabs...
...Sadat's stunning peace overture. As days went by, the pressure on Israel to react grew and grew. What was needed from the Israelis was concessions that would be sufficiently important to allow the negotiating process to continue-if possible, with the support of Syria and the other Arab states that chose to boycott the Cairo conference. Begin recognized the challenge and, according to aides, relished the idea of going down in history as a peacemaker. Since their Jerusalem meeting, he and Sadat had continued to communicate in secret. But Begin also knew that the hours were running short...
...most part, Arab diplomacy remained paralyzed by outrage and indecision, as Cyrus Vance discovered during his quick stopovers in six Middle East capitals. He had believed that Jordan's King Hussein would be amenable to joining the Cairo talks at a later stage. Instead, Vance found, the King was determined to remain an uncommitted moderating force, but would probably be prepared to join a Geneva Conference later. Lebanese President Elias Sarkis was swamped with his country's own post-civil war problems. In 4½ hrs. of talks in Damascus, Syria's Hafez Assad reiterated his view...
...Riyadh, Vance's reception was hardly more encouraging. When he delivered a personal message from Carter to King Khalid, the Saudi monarch's first question was: "Is it in Arabic?" A government statement said later that the Foreign Minister, Prince Saud, felt "his talks with Secretary Vance reinforced his own natural optimism, which he does not wish to exaggerate." Official members of the Vance party came away convinced that the Saudis will continue to support Sadat, and that they gradually will take a more active behind-the-scenes role in bridging the gap between the Arab camps. Nonetheless...