Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three members of the Lebanese National Movement (LNM) last night told a capacity crowd in Science Center C the present Lebanese situation reflects an attempt to isolate Lebanon from the Arab world...
...charter is to build up a military bloc on Israel's northeastern border that would be strong enough to worry the Israelis into making concessions, but not threatening enough to provoke an Israeli pre-emptive strike. Iraq is the Arab world's second largest oil producer (after Saudi Arabia) and has a large, Soviet-supplied army. It would like to station some of its forces in Syrian territory opposite the Israeli border, but after their years of quarreling with the Iraqis, the Syrians are reluctant to accept such an arrangement. According to Iraqi sources, the new agreement will merely permit...
Sadat has long since abandoned hope of convincing the Syrians, not to mention the Iraqis, that he is bargaining earnestly in behalf of the other Arab states. But he is still trying to persuade moderate Arab states that an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty would be merely the first step toward a comprehensive settlement. To make it easier for the Israelis, he is prepared to allow this point to be made in the preamble to the treaty rather than in the agreement itself. So far, however, the Israelis seem to want no part...
...group in the Arab world has monitored the Egyptian-Israeli peace talks with more intensity and concern than the 1,139,000 Palestinians who live on the West Bank and in Gaza. That intensity increased last week with word that the Israeli Cabinet intended to "thicken" (augment) the settlements of Israeli nationals in their midst. The news added a further twist to the Palestinian debate over the Camp David accords, which has been almost as tortuous as the negotiation process itself...
...view with mixed feelings. Many moderates believe that Jordanian rule over the territory between 1949 and 1967 was fully as objectionable as the Israeli occupation. Last month, when King Hussein voiced his own skepticism over the Camp David proposals for Palestinian autonomy, objecting to their failure to provide full Arab sovereignty, West Bankers watching the telecast cheered loudly...