Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Israel, however, will not be a totally festive occasion, for the country's mood is one of anxiety and uncertainty rather than hope and promise. Israel's national spirit is sagging under the weight of a succession of embarrassing scandals. These include the Shin Bet affair, in which two Arab terrorists were killed while in the custody of Israeli security officials in 1984, and Jerusalem's role in the Iranscam arms deals and the Jonathan Jay Pollard spy case, which involved an American Jew spying on the U.S. for Israel...
...next step in Middle East diplomacy. Both Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the Likud bloc, and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, the Labor Party leader, are increasingly worried that Israelis will judge the government's greatest failure to be its inability to achieve a breakthrough in relations with its Arab neighbors. Yet the two men are at loggerheads over a peace strategy. Shamir holds out for direct talks, maintaining that the only way to guarantee enduring peace is to negotiate a separate accord with each country involved. Peres agrees that direct talks are critical but believes that Jordan and other...
...result of all the scandals and the intensifying antagonism between the main players in the coalition has been a pervasive national sense of unease. Although there has been little unrest in the streets beyond a sprinkling of student and Arab protests, the malaise is palpable. Says Hanoch Smith, a leading Israeli public opinion pollster: "The crisis of confidence has been brewing for a long time, and it's slowly getting worse...
...through the Middle East renewed my hope that another productive phase in the peace process might soon be possible. Since the founding of the state of Israel, almost 40 years ago, the nation's leaders have always expressed their willingness to negotiate directly with the leaders of any neighboring Arab state. But during the past few years there has been a series of frustrating disappointments, as the Egyptians, Jordanians and Palestinians attempted to orchestrate a reasonable plan to build upon the partial successes of the Camp David accords and the subsequently negotiated peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. With...
...Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini during the latter part of my term as President. Back then we were able, with the crucial assistance of the Algerians, to secure the release of the American hostages. President Chadli Bendjedid and his ministers now make every effort to nurture good relations among Arab nations, and especially with Iran and Iraq. They might very well be in a good position to act as mediators between those two warring nations when the fanatic commitment of the Ayatullah to the bloody Persian Gulf war is ended...