Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Connally's proposal for a comprehensive Arab-Israeli settlement based on U.S. military presence seems attractive, it is dangerously myopic. A foreign military presence would be actively opposed by Arab nationalists, not to mention the Soviets, thereby creating Dangerous confrontation and jeopardizing U.S. access to stable oil flow...
Joan Baez sang at benefit concerts in Paris and Washington. Abie Nathan, known for his efforts on behalf of Arab-Jewish amity, sent food packages from Thailand. While governments debated how to cope with Cambodia's crisis, official agencies, religious and private organizations, and concerned individuals were at work to aid the catastrophe's victims...
...commercial market; 66 nations competed for space at last month's Baghdad international fair, which in the past normally brought only about two dozen exhibitors. Diplomatically, too, the government is trying to change its former image as a radical regime. At last spring's Baghdad conference of Arab states, Saddam Hussein signed a communique that tacitly accepted United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 as a basis for solving the Palestinian question. Iraq's action, say Middle East experts, was an intriguing modification of its traditionally strong anti-Israel position as a leader of the so-called Arab...
Supporters of a public firm can also call the major private oil bureaucracies disloyal. During the Yom Kippur War and the Arab oil embargo, American oil companies demonstrated they will not put their home country first--they restricted deliveries to the U.S. proportionally more than to other customers. It is simply foolish to leave all control of a commodity vital to our industry and military in the hands of men understandably motivated by profit alone. The traditional conservative concern for national security should be harnessed to support a federal oil company...
...Israeli settlements would be a part of Israel. The Arab villages and towns could decide the nature of their relations with Jordan and with Israel. We would tell them: ''Gentlemen, do you want our health department, our doctors to help you? If not, that's fine, we have enough patients of our own. And do you want the experts from our Ministry of Agriculture to teach...