Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...destiny in Israel, their homeland. By equating Zionism and racial discrimination, the United Nations denies the right of national sovereignty to one particular people, the Jews, thus subverting their own principles and perpetuating the very practice it purports to condemn. Morever, the United Nations' attempt to deal with the Arab-Israeli conflict through linguistic obfuscation limits its capacity to reconcile the claims of the two vying national liberation movements in the Middle East--the Jewish and Palestinian--such a task would be more difficult, but significantly more meaningful than the U.N.'s current verbal antics...
...business. Despite simmering eruptions, notably in 1958 when the U.S. sent in troops to prevent a leftist take over, Lebanon thrived for decades as a result of its compromise-and of a Swiss-style neutrality that helped to make it the trading, banking and communications hub of the Arab world...
...well aware that his is "a job that tends to disappear." His rule remains personal and absolute. When he spent a month recovering from hemorrhoid surgery last January, the government ground almost to a halt. Despite the tension with neighboring Algeria, Morocco has strong ties with most other Arab nations; except for issues involving Israel, it is basically pro-Western in foreign policy and open toward European and American investments. Since 1973 Hassan has emulated his oil-rich Arab allies by pushing up the price of phosphate rock from $14 to $68 a ton. Morocco controls 60% of world trade...
...moderate speech at Washington's National Press Club, Sadat was asked his opinion of a U.N. draft resolution on Zionism that is to be voted upon by the General Assembly next week. The draft resolution, which condemns Zionism as a form of racism, was sponsored by the Arab League, including Egypt, and approved by the General Assembly's Social Committee, 70 to 29 with 27 abstentions. Sadat's strikingly personal reply provoked sharp criticism. He recalled that in 1950, "after seven years of concentration camp and prison,"* he could not buy a radio from shopkeepers in Egypt...
Sadat's press campaign had been carefully choreographed by Tahsin Bashir, 50, a moonfaced, cigar-smoking intellectual who had served as Egypt's spokesman at the United Nations and as Arab League information officer before Sadat last year named him presidential press adviser. Bashir's first step was to abandon the censorship and tone down the anti-Zionist rhetoric that used to dominate Egyptian press policy. "If anybody photographed a camel in our streets," he says of the xenophobic old days, "it was considered treason...