Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maintaining that "no Arab must fear Geneva," Sadat has been amenable to almost every reasonable formula proposed for getting the parties involved back to Geneva. Although Syria balked, Egypt readily endorsed, with minor reservations, the working paper that Carter and Vance negotiated with Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan between U.N. meetings in New York last month. In essence, this formula called for a united Arab delegation containing some Palestinian representation, but no known members of the P.L.O. There would be specific negotiations between six subgroups?Israel and Egypt, for example, or Israel and Syria?on the basis of U.N. Resolutions...
Sadat even went out of his way to propose a resolution of the Palestinian representation problem that might satisfy Israel as well as his Arab colleagues. In a letter to Carter last August, the contents of which he disclosed to visiting U.S. Congressmen in Egypt two weeks ago, he suggested that the Palestinians at Geneva might be represented by an academic of Palestinian descent teaching at an American University. No names were mentioned, but speculation centered on three potential negotiators: Edward W. Said, 42, a Jerusalem-born professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia; Ibrahim Abu Lughod...
Increasingly impatient with the slow progress of the U.S. initiative, Sadat began to think more and more about bold ways to break the stalemate. "The Arab-Israeli conflict," he told the U.S. Congressmen, "contains 70% psychological problems and 30% substance." What Sadat wanted was a move so dramatic that it would both shock and inspire the other parties involved to return to the path of negotiations. That could be only one thing, he eventually decided: speaking over the heads of the Israeli leaders to their people about peace, and doing so in front of their own parliament...
...great, unanswered question about Sadat's trip is whether Geneva, all of a sudden, becomes irrelevant?and perhaps even a procedural obstacle to progress in the Middle East. Despite Sadat's solemn promise to other Arab leaders that he will not negotiate a separate peace with Israel, he and Begin will almost certainly explore the possibility of a third accord that would restore more of Sinai to Egyptian control. For his part, Begin made...
Sadat insisted that everybody have a quick snack (coffee, cheese and roast beef sandwiches) before settling down to talk. The President was asked if he were disturbed by the criticism of the trip throughout the Arab world. "Do I look worried?" he answered with a chuckle. "As you see, I am quite calm, quite happy. This is our custom in the Arab world. We agree on strategic issues, but maybe we don't agree on tactical issues...