Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stormy, five-hour session, the Cabinet voted to warn the U.S. to keep its commitments to Israel, notably the promise to veto any attempts by the Arab states to alter United Nations Resolution 242, which in 1967 implicitly acknowledged Israel's right to exist...
...usually takes. 3)Kuwaiti diplomats at the U.N. proposed a draft resolution that would, in effect, tie Israel's right to exist, as implied in Resolution 242, with international recognition of the Palestinians' right to self-determination. Through this ingenious strategy, so the hypothesis went, the moderate Arabs were gently nudging the Carter Administration to come to grips with the Palestinian problem by October. If by that time the U.S. failed to respond to the Arab appeal and continued to yield to Israeli obstinacy, the Saudis could simply cut back on their oil production, once again causing...
...reconstructed by U.S. experts on the Middle East, the Arab scheme stemmed from P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat's growing difficulties earlier this year...
...goes. But Carter is convinced, as are U.S. allies in Western Europe, that unless the Palestinians can be persuaded to participate in the autonomy plan, the whole fragile goal of a wider Middle East peace is in jeopardy. All the ferment in the Middle East, Israel's uneasiness, Arab efforts to influence events in new forms, are part of that difficult, unsettling, but necessary process...
...Arab nations have designated the P.L.O. as the sole representative of the Palestinian people. What is it you want for the Palestinians, now and in the long-term future...