Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That chilling announcement by the Iraqi government of President Saddam Hussein last week sent shock waves of alarm to the U.S., Western Europe and Japan, as well as to Iraq's Arab neighbors. It suggested that after 41 months of bloody but inconclusive fighting between Iraq and Iran, the Iraqis had decided to make good on a longstanding threat to close down Iran's biggest oil-exporting terminal. If that happens, the Iranian government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has threatened to retaliate by blockading the 40-to-60-mile-wide Strait of Hormuz, through which...
...green light flashed in Damascus just in time to save what little was left of the Reagan Administration's policy in Lebanon. A pro-Western Arab diplomat, scarcely concealing his disdain for both U.S. diplomacy and the indecisiveness of the Gemayel regime, remarked last week, "We're going to get a settlement here for the U.S. despite...
Christian who served as President from 1952 to 1958: "We are part of the Arab world, but we are also apart from the Arab world because so much of our identity comes from the West." The Christians' affinity for the West is deeply rooted in their long struggle to survive, first as a religious community and then as a political entity. It was reinforced during two decades of French rule following World War I, which saw the establishment of Lebanon as the only Christian state in the Middle East. The Christians pride themselves on their cultural, economic and politicalties...
There is more than a hint of superiority in these feelings. Many Christians, for example, prefer to speak French rather than Arabic, as if to say, "I may be Lebanese and an Arab, but I am different...
...Super Etendard fighter-bombers it bought from France last fall to attack Kharg Island, Iran's principal oil terminal. Iran has repeatedly said it would retaliate by blockading the strait, thereby halting shipment of most of the oil produced by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Iran. Last week Iranian officials warned again that if the U.S. and its supporters try to intervene in the war "their fate would be decisively worse than their fate in Lebanon." The U.S. has been urging restraint on Iraq to avoid any provocation that would escalate the conflict. But should...