Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MIDDLE EAST. The perpetual Arab-Israeli crisis simmers as always, and the U.S. seems to have no new ideas for resolving it. Even if it did, the pullout of American Marines from Lebanon last year so damaged U.S. prestige in the region that experts believe Washington's ability to play a significant diplomatic role has been severely undercut for the near future. Israel too is planning to pull out of Lebanon; it announced last week that it would begin a phased withdrawal of its troops from the southern part of the country that could be completed in nine months...
...intense publicity surrounding Operation Moses apparently triggered Sudanese fears of alienating other Arab states, none of which--with the sole exception of Egypt--has diplomatic relations with Israel. The concern was justified. Libya requested a special session of the Arab League, and newspapers in many Arab states last week condemned Sudan. Thundered Kuwait's Al Rai al A'am: "The smuggling of Ethiopian Jews across Sudan can be regarded not as a passing event but as a new defeat inflicted on the Arab nation...
...Khartoum, the Sudanese government denied any role in the airlift. Foreign Minister Hashem Osman called in Arab, African and Asian diplomats to charge that Ethiopia had been "closing its eyes" to the Falasha exodus in return for weapons and money from Israel. Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Goshu Wolde countered with the accusation that Sudan had been bribing "a large number of Ethiopian Jews to flee Ethiopia...
...President Hosni Mubarak, a Muslim, had a present last week for his Christian community. He released Pope Shenouda III, 61, from a three-year- long house arrest and allowed him to resume his duties as spiritual leader of the Copts, the largest Christian group (6 million) in any Arab nation...
...from Ethiopia's Marxist regime. In Addis Ababa, the Foreign Ministry called the operation "illegal," "sinister" and "a gross interference in Ethiopia's internal affairs." The statement charged Sudan with accepting financial inducements to help the Israelis. Sudan denied the allegations, calling them "part of a malicious plot against Arab solidarity." Neither Sudan nor Ethiopia has diplomatic relations with Israel. The cost of the airlift, code named Operation Moses, could exceed $100 million. It is financed largely by American Jewish organizations and individuals. To Israel, the program has a particularly deep meaning. According to Moshe Gilboa, an Israeli Foreign Ministry...