Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that he is optimistic. He concludes after a 1983 visit to the region that the Arab states are as unwilling as ever to "give clear and official recognition" to Israel's right to exist within secure borders, while the Israelis are just as reluctant to withdraw from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and grant self-determination to the Palestinians. He compares the relatively moderate views of many West Bank Palestinians with the overheated and unrealistic rhetoric of some Palestine Liberation Organization officials, who in conversation "rarely mentioned the plight of their brothers in the West Bank and Gaza...
Although the former President praises many of the Middle East leaders he has known, it is obvious that his hero is the late Anwar Sadat, whose home village Carter visited in 1983, some 17 months after Sadat's death. In his lifetime Sadat was condemned by many fellow Arabs for making peace with Israel. In Carter's view Sadat remained true to his Arab heritage even as he moved "toward peace for his people and justice for the Palestinians by acknowledging the need for incremental progress through negotiation...
...objectives was to persuade Saddam to renew diplomatic relations with Egypt, which were severed in 1977 at a time when Egypt was making peace overtures toward Israel. He was not quite ready to take that step at the moment, Saddam told his visitors; what really mattered in inter-Arab ties, he said, was not "an official formula" but what was in "our hearts and consciences." Translation: he has not forgotten that since the gulf war began in 1980, Egypt has sold Iran about $1 billion worth of arms, including large amounts of secondhand Soviet-made equipment...
...Peres. Mubarak later flew to Washington to make a personal plea to President Reagan for renewed U.S. involvement. Then, last week, the globe-trotting Egyptian leader joined King Hussein on a trip to Baghdad to enlist the support of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Not since Reagan took office have Arab leaders displayed such an aggressive effort to revive the dormant peace process and, most important, to get the U.S. back into the diplomatic game...
...Reagan Administration has been standoffish, giving the Arab overtures wary encouragement while avoiding, at least for the time being, any direct involvement. In his press conference last week, the President said that the U.S. "did not want to participate in the negotiations--it wouldn't be any of our business to do so." He added, however, that he had "complimented" Mubarak for his work and that the U.S. would "do whatever we could to help bring the warring parties together...