Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...child's game of pretend is over. A major Arab leader has had the courage to publicly accept what is: Israel exists. The rays of peace peek through a stormy sky. Why has it taken so long...
This visitation was hatched with Washington in mind; it was planned to feature a scenario of State Department spokesmen again castigating Israel as intransigent in refusing to evacuate "occupied Arab territory." There will also be attempts to set up American Jewry against the ungrateful and obstinate Israeli government...
...gamble for peace is to get major concessions out of the Israelis or, alternatively, trigger a dramatic American move that will force Jerusalem to yield. If neither event happens, the Saudis fear Sadat will lose his credibility and with it his capacity to lead moderate forces in the Arab world. Even if he were to survive politically in Egypt after such a failure, the Saudis argue, he would no longer be a significant Arab leader. Any such collapse of Sadat would leave the Saudis in a vulnerable position. They would be forced to face resurgent radicalism among the Arabs without...
Crown Prince Fahd and King Khalid forgave and apparently forgot after Sadat sent a high-level emissary to soothe their wounded feelings. The Saudis expressed full understanding of Sadat's objectives and made it clear that they are not opposed to a direct Arab-Israeli dialogue. The Saudis, however, also explained that they could not publicly support Egypt's move lest they weaken the broad range of contacts they have laboriously built up all across the Arab world. They now are in a position to influence such disparate and often inimical regimes as Marxist South Yemen and Somalia...
...Saudis, Arab solidarity is essential if the Soviets are to be prevented from exploiting Arab quarrels. Communism, the Saudis believe, is almost as much a threat to the Arab world as Zionism. They feel an overall peace settlement would "deradicalize" the Arabs, whose frustrations about Israel have fostered a brand of terrorism that has frightened the Riyadh rulers. The assassination of King Faisal in 1975 (although apparently not politically motivated), the kidnaping later that year of Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yahmani at the OPEC meeting in Vienna (a scheme masterminded by Palestinian Leader Wadie Haddad) and last spring...