Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blum used this outlandish scenario to illustrate the legal implications of Arab denial of Israeli sovereignty over what the United Nations defined as Palestine at the time of its abortive partition plan...
...soil given up by Israel, but dropped a clause added to a similar resolution in 1974 that designated such a state as a base for further struggle against Israel. Time and again, P.L.O. leaders, including Yasser Arafat, have said they would settle for a Palestinian entity on any Arab territory given up by Israel-implying a willingness to coexist, albeit reluctantly, with the Jewish state. To promise more without getting a quid pro quo would be difficult for Arafat, who has a diffused and unwieldy constituency to satisfy...
...safeguard for Israel than a hazard. For one thing, such a state would not be entirely free. Even P.L.O. leaders now talk approvingly about having formal links with Jordan, whose ruler, King Hussein, desperately wants peace with Israel. Moreover, it is clearly in the interests of moderate Arab nations that a dangerously radical regime does not emerge in any Palestinian state. A radical Palestine would be as likely to stir up unrest in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, the Arabs' principal bankroller, as in Israel...
...Saudis want a Palestinian state, but they wouldn't give a nickel to a radical one." Deeply fearful of Russian influence in the Middle East, the Saudis would almost certainly insist that the defense, finance and foreign trade of a Palestinian state be monitored or controlled by established Arab states...
...doubtful how effective a deterrent it would be. Nearly 40% of all petroleum consumption in the U.S. on any given day is used to run the country's automobiles, and though the price of gasoline has all but doubled in the U.S. since the days of the Arab oil embargo, Americans are today consuming about 7% more gasoline than they were before the price shot up at the pump. Carter's wellhead tax would only add about 60 to 80 to the price of a gallon of gasoline by 1985, and who seriously thinks this will discourage Sunday...