Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Damascus' imposition of the cease-fire on Lebanon was a personal triumph for Syrian President Hafez Assad. He can now legitimately pose as the protector of the Lebanese Moslems and claim to have prevented an Arab state from destroying itself in a civil war. Moreover, he has acquired some measure of authority over the 400,000 Palestinians living in Lebanon. By using the P.L.A. to stop the fighting, Assad avoided direct Syrian military intervention in Lebanon, which might have triggered an invasion by Israeli troops...
...Role. The "Syrian windfall in Lebanon," as a State Department official called it, is only the latest step in a Syrian campaign to undercut Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's position as the leading spokesman of the Arab world. Assad outmaneuvered Sadat last summer by refusing to negotiate a new disengagement agreement with Israel over the Golan Heights after Sadat had already signed the Sinai accords. Last autumn Assad balked at renewing the mandate of the United Nations peace-keeping force in the Golan Heights unless the Palestine Liberation Organization was invited to a major Security Council debate...
...P.F.L.P.'S RELATIONSHIP WITH CONSERVATIVE ARAB REGIMES. Such regimes are reactionary. The entire economy of Saudi Arabia, for example, is linked with imperialism. Thus it is hard for us to believe that the interests of such regimes are with the Palestinian revolution. They would like to make us so dependent on them that we could not take independent action. It is not our duty as Palestinians to overthrow those regimes, but we will cooperate with national liberation movements in those countries...
...least partly disguised, what with a string of recent defeats at the U.N. for U.S.-Israeli policy and much strain between Washington and Jerusalem about where to head next in the Middle East. After three sessions, the two leaders agreed that their primary goal should be to persuade Arab leaders to join Israel at a reconvened Geneva peace conference. That agreement was easy: there now seem to be no alternatives to Geneva anyway...
...Washington, Rabin tried to present a softer image for Israel. Speaking before a joint meeting of Congress, he said that he was "ready to meet with any Arab head of government at any time and at any place." He quoted Sadat's remark to Congress that "there is no substitute for direct person-to-person contact" and then won applause by adding, "I wish that he would direct those words to me as well...