Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yitzhak Shamir personifies intransigence. Wherever he goes, even if it is just to his office in Jerusalem, he is attended by low expectations for Arab- Israeli diplomacy. Still, his visit to Washington next week could advance the cause of peace if his encounters with the American President, Congress and the Jewish community reinforce the message he has been getting back home: something has to give on the occupied territories...
...standing still while events run beyond his control. He is expected to arrive with a proposal for elections among the Palestinians in the West Bank, followed by negotiations between those elected representatives and Israel. He wants to buy time by avoiding the question of whether Israeli withdrawal from -- and Arab sovereignty over -- the West Bank might someday be on the agenda of those negotiations. The Bush Administration will probably not insist that he bless the idea of territorial compromise in advance, but as his part of the bargain he had better not rule it out forever. That would probably...
...Middle East the P.L.O. has been ahead in the battle for world opinion ever since last December when it acknowledged Israel's right to exist while continuing to support Arab uprisings in the West Bank and Gaza. But last week, smack in the middle of a visit to Washington by Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arens, Secretary of State James Baker unveiled a series of admittedly "small" confidence-building trade-offs designed to get the antagonists talking. The Palestinians are being asked to moderate the intifadeh in exchange for a looser Israeli grip on the occupied territories...
...Declaration divided the land that is now Israel into two parts, one Israeli and the other Palestinian. In an attempt to stop the establishment of even a small Israeli state, the Palestinians, with the help of other Arab nations, initiated the war that eventually lost the Palestinians their land. With their subsequent incorporation into neighboring countries, the Palestinians became stateless and rightless...
...Israeli army. Never do we read a headline like "Ayatollah Khomeini Instills Muslim World with Hatred," even in a time of a highly publicized death threat. Death threats are something the state of Israel has lived with since its inception; the one political issue that has not divided the Arab nations until recently is the mandate to destroy Israel...