Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Weeks of invisible diplomacy and quiet arm twisting by the U.S. have produced the first significant step toward an Arab-Israeli peace conference. Flying to the region on Saturday for his fourth round of talks in two months, Secretary of State James Baker said Saudi Arabia and its five allies in the Gulf Cooperation Council will send an observer to the conference if it is held. They will also participate in regional working groups on problems like arms control and water resources...
Saudi Arabia and its neighbors -- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates -- are the first Arab states after Egypt to agree to sit down and talk formally with Israel. That alone, says Baker, "will break at least one major taboo." A Saudi official in Washington agrees: "The camel's nose is in the tent...
...Bush himself who has trumpeted America's gulf triumph as having finally "kicked" the Vietnam syndrome. Perhaps the President's pique reflects nothing more than frustration: fashioning a new world order is more easily said than done, as Bush is currently discovering in his attempts to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict...
...Islamic Republic and so forth, then there will be people there who want to appear religious, but they are just pretending to be so. But if your state is a secular one, then nobody can claim to be religious unless he really is so. Comparing Turkey today with many Arab countries, I think Turks are more religious. But this does not mean they are fundamentalist. Dangers exist, but the main point is that the problems are economic...
...window of opportunity has opened only a crack, and can easily slam shut again. During Baker's journey, Israelis inaugurated two new settlements in the occupied territories -- a remarkable slap in the face to the Secretary of State. Arab governments, especially those that cooperated with the U.S. during the gulf war, "are now feeling domestic pressure to be more Arab than ever," says Robert Keeley, president of the Middle East Institute in Washington. Jordan, Syria and the Palestinians are sidestepping the question of whether they would join the talks; only Egypt has said yes. And while Moscow's cooperation...