Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conclusion, you find the Arab world split in two halves--each resenting the other...
...feel in your article the intensity of your frustration with and the hatred for the "bad" Arabs who, in your opinion, betrayed Kuwait. Dear Bader, who was it who betrayed his fellow Arab first? Wasn't it Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates who sponsored the Iraq war effort against Iran and then counterbalanced that move by secretly shipping arms to Iran through the port of Dubai? Wasn't Kuwait pumping oil out of the Iraqi part of the Rumaila oil field while Iraq was busy fighting that war (which could have easily threatened the actual existence of the fragile...
...point I am trying to make here is that none of the Arab leaders care about Arabism, neither the Kuwaiti government nor the Iraqi president. Arabism is only rooted in the Arab masses. It is exploited by their authoritarian dictators to manipulate the people for their own sake. Dear Bader, you fell in the same trap Saddam Hussein planted for the Arabs as your fellow Palestinians did. Saddam tried to manipulate the Arab masses by claiming that he was fighting for the Pan-Arab cause--equality between the Arabs and the freedom of the Palestinians. Palestinians, Jordanians and North African...
SADDAM HUSSEIN EXPLOITED Arabism and the Palestinian question to gain the support of the naive "have-nots" as well as the naive "haves." Dear fellow Arab Kuwaiti (whether you like it or not), let's not fall into the jaws of the sharks you were talking about, the Arab authoritarians promoting hostility among Arabs. Egyptian papers attack the Iraqi people, Saudi papers attack the Jordanian people. Kuwaiti papers attack the Palestinian people and vice versa. You said that the Iraqis betrayed you and Kuwait when they invaded your country...
...Society for Arab Students invited you and your Students For a Free Kuwait to come join us and work with us (The Crimson, October 18). You never even attempted to contact us. You never even attempted to contact us. You never met with any of us to see our views. You had your mind set long before you came to Harvard that the "have-not" Arabs are against...