Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assurance of an imperial proconsul, Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam last week presided over a cease-fire in Lebanon that Damascus had not merely proposed but had imposed. At Beirut's presidential palace, the amiable diplomat-many Lebanese have already begun calling him the "Kissinger of the Arab world"-received one delegation after another from Lebanon's rival political and confessional factions. Meanwhile, a team of Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese officers monitored the cease-fire-the 23rd in the nine-month-old civil war-and managed to restore a measure of relative calm to the strife-torn...
PERLMUTTER: In 1947 there was a U.N. resolution that divided the country into two-one Arab state, one Jewish state. It was the Arab countries that attacked Israel, and it is the Arab countries that are responsible for the expulsion of the Palestinians. Between 1951 and 1967, most of the Palestinians that Mr. Hussaini is talking about were under Jordanian rule. I am in favor of a Palestine-Jordan solution. [But] as an Israeli who recognizes that there is a nationalist movement in Palestine, I would be willing to say the P.L.O. probably is the only group that represents real...
HUSSAINI: It is a historical inaccuracy to blame the suffering of the Palestinians on the Arab states. It is a fact that the Palestinian people belong to the lands of Palestine, the territory that was put under British rule in the early 1920s. There was fighting in Palestine, and many Palestinians left their homes as Jewish military forces were moving into these towns and villages...
...General Assembly recommended partition of Palestine into two states: Jewish and Arab. So we now ask today: Where is the Arab state? The Palestinians do not belong to Jordan or Syria or Egypt. They belong to Haifa, Jaffa...
PERLMUTTER: There is a state of war between the Arab countries and Israel...