Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team of experts. They outlined, among other things, what would be "acceptable minimum" and "practical maximum" results on a wide range of problems. Begin's staff, meanwhile, had given him a pale blue folder titled "Possibilities and Recommendations," containing 70 pages of charts, documents and official statements on the Arab-Israeli conflict. And Sadat had been handed a sheaf of working papers drafted by his own special task force. The participants, moreover, are hardly strangers. Sadat and Begin have conferred twice; Carter has met Begin four times and Sadat thrice...
...very high-risk thing for me politically." Indeed, no previous American President has assumed such a direct personal responsibility for resolving the Arab-Israeli dispute, which has erupted in four wars and taken 39,000 lives in the past three decades...
...Israeli government, moreover, has pushed ahead with the establishment or expansion of its controversial settlements in the occupied territories, even though previous Israeli governments had acknowledged that most of these territories would have to be returned to Arab rule. Carter sent Begin three messages expressing his personal concern about the Israeli moves, and Secretary of State Vance stated that the Israeli settlements "are contrary to international...
Just across the road from Beth-El, a cooperative composed of 62 Arab schoolteachers who organized to buy land and build homes, has also run into trouble. Now much of their land too has been restricted by the Israelis. Says Ahmad Thalji, a retired schoolteacher: "I bought one dunam 20 years ago. Now I am told I cannot build a house. I hear people always speaking about human rights. Where are the human rights in this injustice...
Some of the best drama in London this season can be found outside the West End's Prince Edward Theater. Just before curtain time each night, a mini-mob scene unfolds. Bejeweled women-British, American and Arab-pile out of Silver Shadow limos with Savile Row-suited escorts in tow. Sleazy-looking scalpers with cockney accents auction off their wares to desperate millionaires. Sad-faced teen-agers stare dolefully at the crowd, hoping that they might somehow crash the Prince Edward's lobby. No such luck. Only ticket holders are allowed past the theater's tuxedoed doormen...