Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discovered if somebody carries them out in a suitcase. I would say the West is responsible for not applying its own rules rigidly enough. We believe the bomb the Pakistanis are making--or have made--has been financed not just by Pakistan but by certain Arab countries. The real danger is not just Pakistan having this weapon but of its going to people who will not have the ability to prevent proliferation...
Dershowitz, who has debated against Kahane on the subject of deporting Israel's Arab citizens, says he supports Kahane's right to citizenship despite his personal objection to Kahane's political views...
...Administration's approval of the raid shocked moderate Arab states. At the United Nations, the Security Council condemned the Israeli raid by a vote of 14 to 0, with the U.S. abstaining. Tunisian Foreign Minister Beji Caid Essebsi called the attack an act of "state terrorism" aimed at sabotaging Middle East peace efforts. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who had returned to Cairo only the previous day after what he had regarded as a successful trip to Washington, denounced the raid as a "horrible criminal operation" that posed "a major blow to peace efforts." Argued Mubarak: "If we counter terror with...
...action too lavishly was Secretary of State George Shultz. As luck would have it, Shultz was in New York that day to have lunch with the foreign ministers of six gulf states, and the ministers treated the Secretary to a volley of angry protest. One warned him that "no Arab state can now consider itself safe from Israel," while another noted acidly that Tunisia had been the first Arab country ever to call for peace with Israel. Shultz pointed out that Israel had been increasingly concerned about a general upsurge in terrorism over the past several months, but then added...
...Shimon Peres insisted that the raid had been a response to a recent increase in P.L.O. terrorism. Said he: "It was an act of self-defense. Period." The Yom Kippur murders at Larnaca had shocked Israelis and intensified the pressure on Peres to take decisive action. But ! in the Arab world last week, the view was that Israel's real aim had been to torpedo the peace process...