Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fierce Zionist revolutionary, a driving organizer, a persuasive advocate who made up for her lack of stylish eloquence with a peasant shrewdness and a gift for using simplistic anecdotes to convey home truths. In 1969, for example, when Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser kept stating that another Arab-Israeli war was inevitable, she was reminded of a man in a Russian village who always could predict what night the horses were going to be stolen. Why? Because he was the thief...
After Israel proclaimed its independence, Ben-Gurion named her as the new nation's first ambassador to Moscow. He later made her Minister of Labor, then Foreign Minister, a post in which she stoutly supported his policy of tough retaliation for every act of Arab sabotage or raid. Said Ben-Gurion: "She is the only man in my Cabinet." Overall, she had a love-hate relationship with Israel's blustery, impulsive first Premier. At his behest, she Hebraized her last name from Meyerson to Meir (meaning illumination). Privately she referred to Ben-Gurion as "that...
...Premier, she was ruthlessly realistic throughout the so-called war of attrition; her response to any Arab raid or act of terrorism was to order even heavier counterviolence. "We are finished with gimmicks-with observers and emergency forces and demilitarized zones and armistices," she said. "It is a mistake to consider that the reason for the conflict between us is over some territory. We can compromise about that. They don't want us here. That's what it is all about. They don't want us, period...
...parliament. The cause of Sadat's disenchantment: the Middle East peace treaty negotiations begun at Camp David were still stalled over two issues. One was Israel's insistence that the pact should take precedence, in time of conflict, over Egypt's obligations to other Arab countries. The more nagging question was Sadat's demand for linkage of the treaty and the proposed negotiations over the future of the West Bank and Gaza, linkage that he and President Carter believed Israeli Premier Menachem Begin had agreed to at the Camp David summit...
...longer term, however, members of a united Europe might increase trade more with themselves than with the U.S., and a strong, viable ecu ultimately might rival the dollar as a real reserve currency. If that ever happens, Arab and other foreign governments might be tempted to sell dollars in order to invest in that odd new creature that has six parents...