Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bring such meetings, but such meetings cannot bring peace. We are enemies who have been at war for more than 40 years. We have martyrs and devastated property; our lands are occupied, and millions of our people are displaced. A meeting of heads of state to discuss the Arab-Israeli conflict might lead to war instead of peace because when there are differences at the ((top)) leadership level, there is nobody to mend things...
...Egypt regained the Sinai from Israel in negotiations at Camp David. Could Syria reach agreement with Israel on the Golan Heights before all other issues in the Arab-Israeli conflict are resolved...
...Peace with Egypt did not put an end to the conflict in the region. Moreover, Egypt, and in particular Anwar Sadat, paid a very high price. Any Arab leader who does what Sadat did would pay no less. Separate deals do not achieve peace; they may in fact lead to the opposite result. I am surprised that some people would like to cut peace into pieces -- one piece now, another later. What is the use of solving a problem in a way that creates a larger problem? When we speak of a comprehensive peace, we do not mean that everybody...
...total number of Arabs who want peace is greater than that of those who don't. We Arabs share the same origins. Our language, our history, our hopes are one. If the President of Syria makes a mistake, Arab citizens in Algeria or Morocco behave as if they have the same right as Syrian citizens to hold him accountable...
...lawyer said that he and his co-counsels "strove for a jury of Third World people and people who were not yuppies or establishment types." He also said that the defense eliminated any potential jurors who supported Israel and who thus could have been biased against Nosair, an Arab. Clearly, were it not for his "made-to-order" group of nine female and three male jurors, Kunstler himself felt Nosair would have had no chance combating the prosecution's 51 witnesses...