Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...initiatives by the Middle Eastern leaders. In his trips to the area and in his home-front version of shuttle diplomacy between Washington and the United Nations, he established himself as an honest broker, trusted by both sides. In his methodical, patient, lawyerly fashion, he led his Arab and Israeli counterparts through a hard-headed analysis of the political and territorial issues dividing them. The result was a clearer appreciation that traditional confrontation tactics, combined with a reliance on outside mediators, had run their course, and that the time had come for bold steps by the principals themselves...
...gave them a rich, subtle reality. The attentive world could see the look on Sadat's mobile face - so dour at rest, then suddenly exploding in his quick laughter; could watch the effect on Begin, the glint in his eye; and could see the Israeli children waving Arab flags. When Sadat returned to Cairo, anyone inclined to think - from reading a paper - that his welcome there was staged could watch the jogging excitement of the crowds. As Television Critic Michael Arlen remarks, "TV is a kind of language that people have learned how to read...
...formula for a just settlement. The detailed plan described below almost certainly would not be agreed upon by either side in its present form or at the present time. But it offers realistic answers and attainable goals. TIME'S plan assumes that both the Israelis and the confrontation Arab states are, at long last, willing to end all hostile acts, including armed attack, economic boycotts and blockades; and that the antagonists are ready for a peace that would be followed by the beginning of normal, neighborly relations-trade, tourism, the exchange of diplomats. It assumes further that both sides...
...West Bank itself becomes a Palestinian entity. To ease Israel's legitimate fears about the creation of a new Arab realm whose western frontier would be 8.5 miles from Tel Aviv, the Palestinian entity would not possess all the attributes of a sovereign state-at least for a transition period that could last as long as 25 years. It would, however, have its own flag, a parliament and executive and judicial bodies. It could issue passports to all Palestinians living anywhere in the world-an act of enormous symbolic importance to these 3.4 million people without a homeland...
...Bank, with intense economic aid, could theoretically absorb all the Palestinian refugees; nonetheless, the new entity should have the right to impose immigration quotas. Palestinians who fled what is now Israel after 1948 would receive compensation for land they were forced to abandon. So would Jews who quit their Arab homelands and settled in Israel. The size of the payments would be set by an international commission created for this purpose and be financed by a multinational consortium, which would include Israel and the Arab states...