Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says a State Department official, "and we may soon sign a protection agreement, but a long-term commitment of ground forces is not in the cards." The U.S. is not completely against the idea, explains a Western diplomat in Kuwait, "but Washington won't go along unless an Arab force is present as cover. Getting labeled as Kuwait's sole guarantor would only confirm the fears of those who think the U.S. wants to control the region militarily, and an overall Middle East peace would then be even harder to put together...
...gone unheeded despite the promise of a 15-year prison term for harboring arms. "Why should we turn in our guns?" asks a Kuwaiti merchant. "The government couldn't protect us the first time. If the Iraqis come again, we're better off fending for ourselves, especially since the Arab states can't agree on a common security policy...
...west of Jerusalem. The younger al-Husseini has endured continuous hardship since graduating from a Syrian military college in 1967. Arrested five times by Israeli officials, he has spent 42 months in prison and an additional five years under house arrest. Since 1988, when Israeli officials shut down his Arab Studies Society, a research organization, al-Husseini has lived off the royalties he earns from his writings on human-rights issues...
When his phone rings these days, the message is likely to contain a threat, sometimes from Israeli fanatics, sometimes from Palestinian hard-liners who reject peace talks. "You are talking to a dead man," al-Husseini told Secretary of State James Baker last week. "Israeli extremists or Arab radicals will get to me. I want something in my hand so the peace process can continue...
When the gulf war ended in March, Washington had high hopes that the allied victory would provide the momentum for Arabs and Israelis to seek a broader peace. But that expectation quickly curdled into disappointment as George Bush discovered both sides still clung to conditions that precluded talks. Bush sounded less than confident last spring, when he dispatched Secretary of State James Baker to Israel and its Arab neighbors on a round of exploratory diplomacy. "It's the Baker plan," the President joked. "If it works, we'll call it the Bush plan...