Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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West Bank Conflict It's so "nice" to see in your story "West Bank: The Cruelest Conflict" [June 19] how much you care about the "poor, dispossessed and abused" Palestinians. What about the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were forced to leave their homes in the Arab states? Have Jews become blind and insensitive to the suffering of others...
...they are only insensitive to murderers who want to destroy them. Let the Arabs, with their billions of petrodollars, resettle the "poor" Palestinians where they belong-in the Arab states...
...husband, a Palestinian Arab and naturalized American citizen, visited his homeland in 1976, and was subjected to indignities at the hands of the "democratic" state of Israel. Surely there will be no end to the Palestinian resistance without an end to the occupation...
...Cairo on the future of the West Bank and Gaza Strip continues to block a possible Middle East peace agreement-much to Washington's dismay. At his press conference last week, President Carter pledged that the U.S. "will not back off" from its determination to work for an Arab-Israeli settlement. He also categorized as "very disappointing" the Israeli government's refusal to concede that sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza will ever be relinquished. The President then observed, disapprovingly, that Israel had also "rejected an Egyptian proposal [on the territories] that has not yet even been...
TIME herewith offers a proposal for resolving the Palestinian problem that takes into account both Israeli fears and Arab aspirations. The plan, which draws on the views of experts in the U.S., Israel and Egypt, rests on three assumptions. One is that continuing Israeli rule over the West Bank and Gaza, with their overwhelmingly Arab populations, would prove impossible in the long run. The second is that substituting an imposed Jordanian and/or Egyptian sovereignty over the area, except during a brief transition period, would equally frustrate Palestinian nationalist yearnings, and thus preclude a genuine Middle East peace. The third...