Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Secretary of Energy James Schlesinger has scarcely helped. He got off to a good start by warning in February that the shutoff of oil exports from Iran had created a situation " prospectively more serious than the Arab oil embargo" of 1973-74. That statement was widely dismissed as alarmist, but it now seems only too accurate. Lately, the Secretary's statements have been so contradictory that one oil executive exclaims: "The real odd-and-even plan is Schlesinger's assessment of the energy situation...
Israel builds yet another settlement on Arab land...
...known as his country's "settlement czar," gleefully baited and ridiculed opposition members who attacked the Cabinet's decision to establish a new Jewish settlement at Elon Moreh on the occupied West Bank. Not only will the settlement be located, in part, on privately owned Arab land, opposition M.P.s argued, but it will also be within a mile of the populous Arab town of Nablus. Sharon blithely dismissed opponents of Elon Moreh as a "fifth column" bent on sabotaging the dreams of Zionism. When Labor Party members protested that accusation, Sharon snapped: "While you're heckling...
...Cabinet move came at a time when tensions between Jews and Arabs on the West Bank have been on the rise. In the past two months there have been a number of clashes between Palestinians and the settlers, in which several Arabs have been killed or injured. Israeli troops have been more active in cracking down on the Arabs than on the settlers. Bir Zeit University, one of three Arab institutions of higher learning on the West Bank, has been closed since May. When residents of Nablus staged a general strike to protest Elon Moreh, soldiers forced shopkeepers to reopen...
...week increase in foreign oil imports. Yet almost in the next sentence, he was attacking the oil industry for not refining the crude as rapidly as in previous weeks. While he was speaking, lines of motorists at Washington, D.C., service stations were reaching their longest lengths since the 1973 Arab oil embargo...