Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Working out a formula that would allow some Palestinian presence at Geneva was the focus all week long of intense diplomatic bargaining as Israel's Moshe Dayan and Arab foreign ministers shuttled between Washington and New York City. Israel got in the first blow by announcing on Sunday that 64-year-old Premier Menachem Begin-who later in the week was hospitalized with exhaustion-and his Cabinet had accepted that Palestinians, but not known members of the P.L.O., could be present at the opening ceremonies in Geneva as members of a pan-Arab delegation, but only within the Jordanian...
...Arab leaders are gravely concerned about the Begin policy of encouraging new Jewish settlements on occupied territory, particularly the West Bank...
Dayan gets a message from an Arab leader...
Dayan's visit to Tangier was not his only recent encounter with an Arab head of state. Last month Dayan met Jordan's King Hussein in London, at a safe house jointly arranged by Israeli and Jordanian security agents. Hussein, who had five secret meetings with Rabin and one with former Defense Minister Shimon Peres, repeated a longstanding promise. Israel could have an overall peace treaty with Jordan if it returned all the occupied territory. Hussein said in effect: "I am ready to open a Jordanian embassy in Israel, but you will have to pull out from...
Dayan's secret talks have not been limited to Arab leaders. Since becoming Foreign Minister in Begin's government in June, he has held unpublicized discussions with the Shah of Iran, Turkish Premier Süleyman Demirel and Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai. The meetings were designed to improve Israel's shadowy relations with what the late David Ben-Gurion called its "periphery alliances" on the outskirts of the Arab world. Iran, for example, supplies nearly all of Israel's oil. Turkey, after aloofness following the 1967 Middle East war, has again begun to trade...