Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Israel might agree with your plan, if this were the best of all possible worlds Reality, inevitably, intervenes. Israel will not deliver part of her security to the U.N. the very symbol of the world's capitulation to Arab economic power. Nor can it, sadly, rely on American guarantees, let alone the international variety; witness South Viet Nam in 1975. Final responsibility for its security will rest with Israel, and eyeball-to-eyeball negotiations with leaders like Sadat...
...strategy of a desperate man. His strategy after the 1973 war led to concessions, such as Sinai II. Now he is making more concessions. And he is 100% wrong. I don't believe Sadat can last. His days are numbered. Outside Egypt, he is finished as an Arab leader...
...Sadat is facing special hardships within Egypt. His economy is facing almost imminent collapse. But Egypt is only strong as long as it is linked to other Arab countries. By going to Israel, Sadat has isolated himself, and his policy will end in ruination...
...thing is clear: the Saudi Arabian masses have condemned Sadat as a traitor. The Saudi Arabian rulers know how their people feel, and that is why they have not given open backing to Sadat. One result of the conference will be to consolidate progressive Arab opinion. We don't expect support from reactionary forces of the Arab world. But all over the world there are progressives and there are reactionaries. In the front ranks of the reactionaries are the Israelis and those Arabs who march with them...
...expect. He came to power with only 34% of the vote (which translated into 102 seats in the 263-member assembly). He had intransigent opposition to the left and right and a disastrous economic situation that he had little power to rectify. Soares inherited a quadrupled price of Arab oil, a depressed economy in which half the country's food and most of its machinery and raw materials were imported, an influx of 750,000 refugees from the former African territories and a 30% inflation rate. Of late even the Premier's personal popularity had begun to slip...