Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strongly support Sadat's peace initiative, however, and I oppose the response that has come from the Arab world. No Arab leader has ever expressed support for the Palestinians or a desire for peace as genuinely as has Sadat. Instead, I seriously question Syria's, Iraq's, and Libya's motives behind their so-called support of the Palestinians...
President Sadat should make his own peace with Israel and I hope, one by one, the other Arab nations will follow-each negotiating its own settlement...
...possessed, but exactly what was he possessed by? In seeking to break the Middle East peace impasse, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat had stirred up a maelstrom of diplomatic moves and countermoves, and last week he remained at the center of the turbulence. In Tripoli, the anti-Sadat Arab states voted to "freeze" their diplomatic and political relations with Egypt. Sadat reacted icily by making a full diplomatic break with Syria, Iraq, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen. His decision produced a schism as deep as any in the 32-year history of the Arab League. Also, responding...
...kneel except before God." The crowd roared its approval as Sadat dismissed the rejectionists as "dwarfs" and promised to press on for a just solution of the Palestinian problem, despite the "ailing minds of some of the Palestinians." Sadat's trip to Jerusalem last month may have shattered Arab unity, but there was no mistaking the enthusiasm of his own people. SADAT, GOD IS WITH YOU, WE ARE WITH YOU, read the banners. He has never been more popular at home. It is estimated that 85% of his people support him and, more important, Egypt's military leaders...
...conference, his friends struggled to keep up with him and, some thought, to veer him away from a fatal blunder. Crucial to Sadat is the continued support of Saudi Arabia, which indicated last week that it still backs him despite Riyadh's concern over the damage to Arab unity produced by his recent actions. "We did not support the trip to Jerusalem, but we do support Egypt," Saudi Arabia's Deputy Foreign Minister Abdel Aziz Mansouri told Correspondent Wynn, "and we are very concerned at any action that breaks the unity of the confrontation states [Egypt, Syria, Jordan...