Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Cairo, that was the extent of the lesson Egypt wanted to teach Gaddafi. But at week's end, the Libyan-based Arab Revolutionary News Agency insisted that Egyptian MiGs were striking targets that stretched from the Mediterranean to some 250 miles south of Tobruk. The attacks, charged a Libyan spokesman, were "in preparation for a land offensive on Libya." Boasting that Gaddafi's forces had downed eight Egyptian warplanes, the spokesman then warned: "If this unjustifiable aggression is not stopped, the Libyan forces will retaliate strongly in the depth of Egypt." Officials in Cairo at first...
...Arab League Secretary-General Mahmoud Riad called last week's battle "a setback to Arab solidarity." He beseeched both sides to stop fighting, since a war between the neighbors would only benefit the enemy, Israel. Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat shuttled between Cairo and Tripoli to soothe tempers. If it comes to a full-scale war, Egypt's army outnumbers Libya's by about 11 to 1 and is much better trained. But Cairo must worry about 200,000 Egyptians who live and work in Libya to bolster that country's infant economy. They would become hostages...
Like Carter, the Arabs would prefer Geneva Up as a working model. But Begin made it plain that he would rather bargain face-to-face with Israel's enemies. Everything is, negotiable, he insisted, although it is clear that certain things are not-namely, any substantive Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank or restoration of Arab sovereignty to East Jerusalem. Begin also told Carter he was opposed to a single Arab delegation at Geneva and insisted that under no circumstances could known members of the Palestine Liberation Organization be present there, even as members of a Jordanian delegation. Explained...
...allow me." In a schoolmasterly way, Begin started his first session by offering the President a 30-minute history lesson on Israel's role in the Middle East. He illustrated his text by having an aide set up three maps. One showed how vulnerable Israel would be to Arab surprise attacks if it withdrew from the occupied territories. A second showed the relative size of Israel and the Arab world. The third illustrated the military situation in southern Lebanon, where Israelis have actively supported a beleaguered Lebanese Christian minority against Moslem-actually Palestinian-attackers...
...display flexibility on procedural matters. He suggested that at Geneva, after opening statements the parties might split into "mixed commissions"-that is, Israeli groups meeting separately with teams from Egypt, Syria and Jordan. The Premier also said Israel was prepared to negotiate on such mixed commissions even if the Arabs refused to go to Geneva. He even agreed, as a last resort, to "proximity talks" like those held at Rhodes, where the late Ralph Bunche moved between two groups in different rooms of the same hotel to work out the 1949 Israeli-Arab armistices...