Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during Peres' tenure, the key to Israel's politics remains in Arab hands. An Arab initiative, or at least willingness, to start negotiations would bring new Israeli elections. But such a move looks unlikely, and there is little U.S. diplomacy with either side to promote one. Since the bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut, the U.S. has basically backed a stalemate in the Arab-Israel conflict...
...some ways, it is regrettable that the rotation does not make a bigger difference. That reflects the stalemate in the region more broadly. The Arab states, hostage to Syria and its unique style of diplomacy, cannot formulate a policy to confront their two big challenges: the Arab-Israeli conflict and Iraq-Iran war. Indeed for many, including the oil-rich Arab states of the Gulf, it is the latter which directly threaten them and has top priority. To some that may seem a good thing. But the Arab-Israeli conflict has a peculiar tenacity. If the results of the Gulf...
...even an Israeli airman held in Lebanon. In Israel, the counterpart would presumably be the freeing of some or all of 108 Shi'ites being held in southern Lebanon by the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia. It was not clear whether a grand swap would also involve other Arab prisoners held in the West. According to one report circulating in Beirut, France would turn loose Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. French officials promptly denied any such deal...
...three other U.S. hostages were abducted this fall. They are Joseph Cicippio, American University's comptroller; Frank Reed, director of a private elementary school in Beirut; and Edward Tracy, a writer. Their claimed abductors, the Revolutionary Justice Organization and Arab Revolutionary Cells-Omar Moukhtar Forces, are if anything more mysterious and less known than Islamic Jihad...
...world that often cowered before him, he was "Mr. Oil," the very symbol of what many viewed as Arab rapaciousness and relentless resolve to strangle the West. As the chief strategist and unofficial spokesman of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries for more than two decades, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani could seemingly drive oil prices -- and the global economy -- up or down at will. A few words from the unfailingly suave sheik could make government officials shudder and cause stock markets from New York City to New Delhi to fall. With gallows humor, wags depicted OPEC at the height...