Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most outspoken Jewish media, especially Commentary and the once-liberal New Republic, have sounded alarmist tones about Jackson's trip to Syria to release downed Navy pilot Lt. Robert O. Goodman Jr., and a $200,000 contribution by Arab groups to Jackson's Chicago-based public service group, People United to Save Humanity...
...there is a blurry line between political and social disagreements and that line is made all the more hazy by inflammatory rhetoric from either side. That Jackson cannot clearly articulate a pro-Arab platform--which is and should be perfectly acceptable--without also directing cries of "racism at American Jews, shows that he is not the moral leader he professes...
...would be prepared to leave Lebanon, at the moment anyway. The most surprising aspect of the latest peace plan was that Syria's President Hafez Assad, after angrily rejecting an earlier Saudi proposal a week ago, had decided to go along with the four-point approach. As one Arab diplomat in Damascus noted, "Nothing happens in Syria without the man [Assad] saying so. If he says green, it's go. If he says red, it's stop. There are no amber lights in Syria...
...broken out of the normal pattern of Presidential candidates of being unthinkingly pro-Israel," Lecturer Daniel Pipes, a Middle East History specialist, says Glenn has also been more consistent in not taking a pro-Israel stance, Pipes adds, and therefore runs a close second to Jackson in pro-Arab states...
According to the third principle, "the final decision [which relates to the form in which the Palestinian Arab Nation will realize its right to self-determination] must be taken--when the time comes--by the Palestinian Arab nation itself" However, Sarid indicated that there are many in Israel, the Arab world, and elsewhere who believe that the solution should take into account "the close links and the strong ties between the West Bank and the East Bank--the Kingdom of Jordan...