Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Second, said Akins, the U.S. must stop "forcing the Saudis into taking actions that are perceived in the government and in the country as a whole as anti-Saudi and anti-Arab. The Saudis tell me: The U.S. is pushing the government into taking positions against our interests in the economic field on oil production, oil capacity, oil prices, and politically is enticing this government to support you on Camp David far more than we think is in the interests of the Arabs...
Akins' most controversial recommendation bearing on the Saudis was to oppose an Egyptian-Israeli peace on the basis of the Camp David plan. Instead, he recommended pressing the Israelis to negotiate a comprehensive peace with the Arab states in which they would surrender all the territory gained after the 1967 War and agree to a Muslim presence in Jerusalem. Akins warned that Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states would stop all aid to Egypt if it reached a separate accord with Israel. "Next," said Akins, "if Sadat doesn't get this aid, he is going to be overthrown...
This view drew a rebuttal around the table. Sisco argued that failure to get an agreement with Israel would make Sadat even more vulnerable, and that while the Arab world might move toward greater unity, "it may very well be the kind of move toward unity that will bring with it an increase in radicalism...
...Saudis believe, wants to destabilize and subvert the entire Arabian Peninsula. That gloomy view gained credibility last week as South Yemen, taking advantage of a long-simmering border dispute, launched an all-out attack on its more populous but militarily weaker northern neighbor, pro-Saudi North Yemen (The Yemen Arab Republic). A ceasefire, hastily worked out by Syria and Iraq, went into effect at week's end, but there was no certainty about how long it would last...
...Soviet, Cuban and East German troops and advisers harbored by the South Yemen government. The Saudis, who have underwritten 1 billion dollars in arms for the northern San'a regime, immediately put their 45,000-man army on alert, recalled 1,000 troops assigned to the Arab peace-keeping force in Lebanon and joined North Yemen in demands for mediation...