Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money. Curiously, the Syrians also had the same dream-but in the form of a nightmare. Last week Damascus officials were worried that a peace agreement might lead to a predatory kind of Zionist expansionism, with Israel seeking Middle East markets for consumer goods produced by cheap Arab labor...
...Begin in his public statements did little to encourage the dreamers. During a Knesset debate last week over the proposed Cairo summit, he took a hard line on territorial concessions in exchange for peace. Said Begin: "We do not accept the demand for June 4, 1967, lines [referring to Arab insistence that Israel surrender land captured during the Six-Day War], nor the demands for the establishment of a so-called Palestinian state, nor the repartition of Jerusalem." Begin also took a passing swipe at Israelis who feel his government owes Sadat some concrete token of friendship. "There...
...Begin's own Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. Some observers fear their disagreements on policy could lead to at least a temporary paralysis of Israeli diplomacy. In his Knesset speech, Begin insisted that Israel was not seeking a separate peace with Egypt or attempting to "drive any wedges between Arab countries." On a four-day visit to West Germany, where he conferred with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, visited the former Nazi death camp at Bergen-Belsen and viewed 30 ancient Egyptian and Coptic relics on display in Bonn, Dayan was also asked about a separate peace with Sadat. "Any time...
...precisely this possibility, that Sadat might make a separate deal with Israel, that both angers and frightens the radical Arabs. At the start of the Tripoli summit, Libya's Gaddafi said to P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat: "I told you all along that Sadat was not a man to trust. Now you know that I was right." Arafat shook his head in silent acquiescence. Without Saudi backing, Sadat simply could not sign such a peace agreement and hope to keep his stature as a leader within the Arab world. In Cairo, however, some diplomats last week were speculating about...
...quiet partner of virtually every Arab nation is Saudi Arabia, whose oil-enriched coffers support Egypt, Syria and the P.L.O. But King Khalid and Crown Prince Fahd did not endorse either Anwar Sadat's proposal for a pre-Geneva summit in Cairo or Muammar Gaddafi's call for an anti-Egypt rejection-front meeting in Tripoli. What are the Saudis up to? TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn flew to Jeddah and sent this analysis...