Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proceed by stages, with each new step contingent upon fulfillment of the conditions required by the previous steps. This process might take years, even decades. The end result, however, could well be a new Palestinian state that could serve as a bridge between Israel and the rest of the Arab world...
...United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which clearly seems to call for this withdrawal, there would be minor adjustments in the armistice lines of 1949, which bisected towns and villages and otherwise imposed easily remedied geographic hardships. More extensive border changes favoring Israel would be allowed, of course, with Arab approval. At the end of a predetermined period-perhaps five years-the West Bank and Gaza would be formally incorporated as a Palestinian homeland with transit rights (but not an extraterritorial corridor) guaranteed between the separated territories. Although this Palestinian homeland would have a government and the right to issue...
Logically, the capital of the new entity would be East Jerusalem, which is predominantly Arab. But negotiations that threaten to divide the Holy City once more would be long, painful and extraordinarily difficult. Until the Jerusalem question is solved, the new entity would use a West Bank city, perhaps Ramallah, as a temporary capital; it would function much as Bonn does for West Germany...
Even for the Arabian peninsula, where the art of politics still involves tribal feuds, intrigue, murder and bloody coups, it was an extraordinary week: within 48 hours the Presidents of both North Yemen (the Yemen Arab Republic) and South Yemen (the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen) were killed. The double deaths mean political instability for the two neighboring states at the southwestern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Both countries are strategically important for they can control access to the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, through which pass tankers carrying 60% of the oil used by Western Europe...
Blaming South Yemen for the murder, North Yemen immediately broke off relations. President Robaye Ah', however, had nothing to do with the assassination. The man behind the bomb, Western and Arab observers suspect, may have been Robaye Ali's longtime rival, Abdel Fattah Ismail, 38, an ardently pro-Soviet member of South Yemen's Presidential Council...