Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became displeased with the kind of support he got from Washington. The Arab-sponsored anti-Zionism resolution was countered slowly at first in State Department instructions to American ambassadors abroad. They were told to call on foreign ministries if it was "deemed to be useful." That, snorts one U.S. official at the U.N., was "the weakest possible instruction. It means if you run into someone at tennis...
Third World radicals, notably the Cubans and some Arab and African extremists, are not interested hi conciliation. But Third World moderates are interested, and they claim that Moynihan has made it harder for them. Europeans, while agreeing with Moynihan on the basic point that developing countries can no longer abuse the Western democracies in public and seek their aid in private, are still worried about keeping their lines open to African, Arab and Asian countries, where they retain important economic ties...
Israel is willing to make a "cosmetic" adjustment - unacceptable to Syria - of the present disengagement line but will not discuss a larger surrender of territory except in terms of an overall peace settlement. And Damascus, which remains the foremost Arab champion of the Palestinian cause, wants a voice for the P.L.O. at any peace proceedings...
Others argue that Assad is merely asserting Syria's role as the traditional defender of pan-Arab nationalism. As spokesman for this cause, Assad attacked Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for making the separate Sinai agreements with Israel that have, for the moment, shattered the Arab confrontation front. Since the second accord, Cairo and Damascus have been engaged in a bitter rhetorical feud. Egypt has taunted Syria for having sought a private agreement with Israel by begging for a cease-fire only 24 hours after the fighting commenced in 1973. Cairo newspapers have charged that Syrian "prisons and concentration camps...
Some important financial considerations underlie this rivalry for leadership of the Arab cause. Both Cairo and Damascus are anxious to hold and if possible increase the subsidies they receive as "confrontation countries" from Saudi Arabia and the oil states of the Persian Gulf. Fully one-quarter of Syria's record $4.5 billion national budget in 1976 will come from such payments...