Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Foreign Ministers of Israel and the Arab states will begin to arrive in the U.S. next week for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. Most of them will have in mind something at least as important as the Assembly agenda: meetings with President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, for which both sides have carefully prepared their strategies...
...reputation as a superhawk, for establishing massive new settlements on the West Bank. The plan, details of which were leaked last week to the daily Ma'ariv, calls for 30 new settlements and three urban centers in the western half of the occupied territory, cutting off the main Arab population centers from Israel. Speaking last week at the tenth anniversary of the settlement of Merom Golan on the Golan Heights, Sharon elaborated on that theme, declaring that Israel should settle 2 million Jews in territories extending from the Golan to Sharm el Sheikh at the southern tip of Sinai...
Moreover, Israeli citizens and their leaders are growing increasingly militant as they read Arab statements that seem to them intransigent. Aharon Yariv, the dovish former Information Minister in Yitzhak Rabin's last Labor government, warned last week that if U.S. peace efforts fail, "war becomes a definite possibility." Returning from a state visit to Rumania, Premier Begin defiantly noted that his government includes three generals who led Israeli armies to victory in previous wars. Said he: "We shall be ready to defend ourselves...
Meanwhile, the Arab League gathered in Cairo over the weekend for its first high-level meeting in six months. Chief topic on the agenda: the Palestinians. Prince Saud, who was the chairman of the meeting, declared that the Arabs would adopt "a plan of action" against the Israelis' move to create new settlements on the occupied West Bank and Gaza which he characterized as "criminal measures and a flagrant challenge endangering peace in the region." The meeting was expected to communicate to Carter the Arab message-no Palestinians, no settlement...
Though the U.N. conference featured an Arab-led walkout during the Israeli delegate's Negev report and other outbursts of rudeness and rancor, the Nairobi proceedings made some encouraging progress. Scientists presented many carefully prepared technical analyses of desertification and ways to combat it. The U.S. pitched in with an offer to train a cadre of 1,000 Peace Corps volunteers for antidesertification work. Before the delegates disband this week, they are expected to adopt a 15-point plan that calls for a worldwide effort against the deserts' encroachment with everything from the planting of new vegetation...