Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sporting a white beard in conscious imitation of his Hashemite ancestors, Jordan's King Hussein last week spoke with TIME Cairo bureau chief Dean Fischer about the Arab-Israeli peace negotiations and his diagnosis of the Middle East's political ailments. Excerpts...
...growing disenchantment with peace negotiations: Initially there was a great deal of enthusiasm and hope within Israel and the Arab world. But none of us has shown the capabilities to deal with the challenges. I feel that Israel is able to focus on only one subject at a time. Maybe that is the reason for the delays on the other tracks. I hope that we will see Arafat back on Palestinian soil as soon as possible. But the sad part was that an agreement ((between Israel and the P.L.O.)) was made without filling in all the details. As a result...
...Islamic fundamentalism: What we are seeing ((in Algeria, Egypt and Turkey)) is also occurring elsewhere in the world. In Europe, in the former Eastern bloc, and in many parts of the world, there is instability. I believe the Arab-Israeli problem is the root cause of instability in this region. If that is adequately resolved, it will contribute greatly toward decreasing the tensions, the frustrations and the anger and despair. With peace, there will be the breaking of a new dawn as far as the quality of life of people is concerned. Almost every eruption in this area that...
...that antismoking efforts have been negligible. Bans in public buildings, cinemas, hospitals and schools are in effect -- and widely ineffective -- throughout Asia and Europe. On the theory that impressionable youths learn by example, Singapore's military personnel are not permitted to smoke in public, and teachers in the United Arab Emirates are hounded by health officials to quit the habit outright. In India, which has the world's highest incidence of oral cancer (largely due to tobacco chewing and the popularity of smoking beedis, a rolled leaf filled with tobacco), the smoking characters in Hindi films and soap operas...
...lest one think that this contrast is rare, consider the words of the New Republic staff editorial written following the Hebron massacre, which recently rang too true: "When, one needs to ask, did a Middle Eastern government or a Palestinian leader, or even a group of Arab intellectuals utter a word of contrition--to say nothing of words like Rabin's--about any of the scores of incidents in which Jewish innocents were cut down no less brutally than the men at prayer in Hebron, and cut down on orders from some official high command at that? The answer...