Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fatah is by far the largest) that have little in common but the dream of a Palestinian state. Divided by strategy (whether to rely on diplomacy, guerrilla war or some uneasy amalgam of both) and the rivalries of their leaders, the groups have split and recombined endlessly. In 1974 Arab states proclaimed the P.L.O. "the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people." That designation, reaffirmed in 1982, is the foundation of the P.L.O's power in international affairs. But formal recognition of the P.L.O. has never prevented the Arab nations from furthering their own feuds by backing one P.L.O. faction...
...Lebanon's foreign policy. The struggle for our Arab identity has been one of the main causes of our problems. We have excellent relations with the Arab world, and Syria is our gateway. She is our big Arab neighbor with whom we must have special relations. We share the same democratic values as the Western world, but politically we are nonaligned...
...position I see the crisis coming forcefully to an end. All the factions are exhausted. No one believes any longer that military solutions are possible. In my opinion, a political solution is much closer than before. There is now a consensus that we have one identity, and it is Arab. This is the main reason I believe we are nearing a solution...
Nonetheless, with one bold, nonviolent stroke, the U.S. had erased four days of frustration, horror and humiliation, an all-too-familiar progression in the recent history of international terrorism. Once again Arab extremists had struck at a vulnerable civilian target. A few hours after it left Alexandria on a pleasure cruise of the Mediterranean, an Italian liner, the Achille Lauro, with 123 passengers and 315 crew aboard, was hijacked by Palestinian gunmen. Once again American passengers were singled out for especially brutal attention. One of them, Leon Klinghoffer, 69, of New York City, a stroke victim confined to a wheelchair...
...tactics and attack U.S. officials and facilities again, maybe even in the U.S." The nature of terrorism is such that no one can tell where the next attack may come from. Late last week, a bomb in Santa Ana, Calif., killed Alex Odeh, 41, a leader of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, after he called Arafat a "man of peace" on television...