Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...politics, Hart's anti-interventionism may appeal to New York voters. But as policy, his positions would make European allies nervous and reduce U.S. leverage with Arab nations. If he stays in contention, Candidate Hart might consider trying to keep more options open for President Hart. -By Evan Thomas. Reported by David Beckwith with Hart and Jack E. White with Mondale
...Jews and many Christians, it is the holiest city; for Muslims, only Mecca and Medina, both in Saudi Arabia, are more sacred. In its 4,000-year history, Jerusalem has been the focus of national and religious wars, from the Roman conquest to the Crusades to the struggle between Arab and Jewish communities during the British mandate of 1919-48. Israel established its modern capital in the western part of the divided city in 1950, two years after the country's founding. During the Six-Day War of 1967, it seized from Jordan the ancient Arab eastern part...
...building settlements in the West Bank, its attack on June 7,1981, on the Iraqi nuclear reactor, its vigorous opposition to the sale of American AWACS to Saudi Arabia. As a result, the assumption that the U.S. would always unreservedly support Israel in a contest of interests with its Arab neighbors ceased to apply...
...Middle East and that the Administration might provide F-16 fighters and mobile Hawk antiaircraft missiles to Jordan. The Israelis were outraged. Begin wrote to the President: "I do not understand why it was necessary for the Secretary of Defense to make his worrying statements [while] visiting Arab countries that . . . but for one, are in a state of war with us." Neither...
Without this help, Israel would not have been able to expand in Arab territories. Without it, the experience of these long years would have motivated the Israelis themselves to put an end to their illegitimate ambitions...