Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Surely it is Egypt's President Anwar Sadat. His being the first Arab leader to visit Israel-and thereby recognizing its existence-is the boldest move toward peace in the Middle East since the days of the Kissinger shuttle diplomacy...
...resolve issues standing in the way of a reconvened Geneva peace conference, including the thorny matter of Palestinian representation. But was Sadat moving too far and too fast? Last week there were grave fears that his proposed summit would not only accomplish little, it might also further split the Arab world...
...Arab solidarity was indeed in tatters. Sadat's mission had been blessed by the moderate regimes of Morocco, Tunisia and the Sudan. His bankrollers, the Saudis (see box), at least did not say no. But the visit to Israel was denounced by Syrian President Hafez Assad, the Soviet Union, the Palestine Liberation Organization and the main rejection-front states, Iraq, Libya and Algeria. Last week the anti-Sadat forces gathered in Tripoli at the behest of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who called the participants the "steadfast states." (Others dubbed the conference the "sorehead summit.") A second meeting...
Sadat seemed unaffected by the steady tirade of abuse directed against him by radical Arabs. Still, he was in the dilemma of a host who had called a party to which most of the essential guests would not come. Israel immediately accepted the invitation to the Cairo conference.* Syria, the P.L.O. and Lebanon, almost as immediately, said no, and the Soviets soon after responded in kind. Playing it close to the vest, Jordan's King Hussein said that he would go to Cairo if all other invited parties went; he added that he would go to Tripoli if every...
...Finnish General Ensio Siilasvuo, chief of U.N. peace-keeping operations in the Middle East. Since he expected that the Cairo conference would have "limited participation," Waldheim suggested yet another preparatory conference under U.N. auspices. Israel said it would not attend, primarily because the P.L.O. was also invited. But other Arab states were more receptive to the idea, as was the Soviet Union. That raised the intriguing prospect that Israel and the U.S. might eventually stand as a rejectionist front against a U.N. conference...