Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Palestinian negotiators. But everybody must know that this issue is a very serious one. Jerusalem is a subject of concern to a billion Muslims. Iranians and Pakistanis feel, for religious reasons, that Jerusalem belongs to them in the same way we feel it belongs to us and the Palestinians. Arab Christians feel the same way. I do not mean to say that the issue of Jerusalem is insoluble. Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions...
...worried, but I understand the background. I can imagine that if I were younger and saw what has happened to the Arab homeland, I might find myself part of this movement. With the enthusiasm of youth, I would judge things hastily. I would see that the Arabs are downtrodden, that their land is occupied, that the Israelis appear victorious. Therefore young people have come to the conclusion that Islam is their salvation. The majority ((of Arab leaders)) are aware of this reality, but they don't talk about it. Sadat visited me before he went to Jerusalem. I advised...
Instead of lifting the arms embargo on Bosnia, as Arab countries have urged, the United Nations decided to administer a stiffer dose of the same medicine. The Security Council plugged the loopholes in its leaky sanctions by banning shipments through Yugoslavia of strategic goods such as petroleum products, coal, steel and chemicals, which until now have been easily diverted from imaginary destinations in Bosnia or elsewhere. While Romania and Bulgaria stiffened controls on the Danube and their borders, frigates from NATO members (including the U.S.) and the nine-nation Western European Union in the Adriatic were authorized to begin stopping...
...GROWING NUMBER OF SPIES IN THE U.S. ARE SPECIALIZING IN stealing business information. Operatives from Russia, China, Vietnam and Cuba have been joined by agents from Japan, Western Europe, the Arab nations and several other countries. The FBI also reports that onetime KGB operatives are going into joint ventures with Western companies. It is not clear in many cases whether they are seeking cover to steal classified information or simply trying to learn the tricks of the commercial trade. Says Wayne Gilbert, chief of FBI counterintelligence: "They're used to dealing in the international community, so they make very desirable...
...Israel that he is ready to take unexpected or unusual steps to achieve peace. I said that I do not believe we can achieve peace without a meeting between the top political leaders of the two countries, because peace by correspondence has no meaning in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, with its emotional backlog of hatred and suspicion. It has to be done in a way that would signal to both peoples that their leaders had decided to put an end to war and establish peace...