Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...necessarily. Western and Arab observers agree that it is not certain how well Assad controls Hizballah, even though it operates on his turf in Lebanon. The Shi'ite guerrilla force was founded in the early 1980s by radical Iranians. Assad, a secular politician who crushed his homegrown fundamentalists, did not publicly embrace Hizballah; he entrusted relations to his intelligence chiefs. The group has grown less extreme in recent years, sending delegates to the Lebanese parliament, but Hizballah is still closely tied to Tehran and remains as determined as ever to fight Israel. Yet it also seems to pay attention...
...possible retaliation for an artillery attack which killed at least 105 refugees in South Lebanon. Israeli gunners, firing at Hizballah guerrillas, hit civilians who had taken refuge at a U.N. camp. Israeli Foreign Minister Ehud Barak called the attack an "unfortunate mistake," while King Hussein of Jordan and other Arab leaders deplored Israel's "malicious aggression" and "criminal military operations." Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres repeated his existing offer to stop military operations against Hizballah if the guerrillas would end their own attacks. President Clinton urgently called for a cease-fire on Friday, while the UN unanimously approved a motion...
...civil war--calamitous as that may be--that constitutes the gravest danger. The manner in which Arafat deals with his Islamic opposition, indeed all opposition, will crucially determine the future power of the executive in Palestine, and, hence, the nature of its civil society and its government. As an Arab, I am greatly ashamed by the fact that Arab regimes from the Gulf to the Ocean are among the most repressive and the least democratic the world over. The specter of another dictatorship imposed on a people that suffered the iniquity of occupation and exile should be resisted...
Hussein shows who's boss by firing the British commander in charge of the Arab Legion: "At the center of these clutching pressures was the slim, short, 20-year-old youngster who is King of Jordan. The British used to call Hussein (rhymes with Biscayne) 'a nice little King.'...Last week he seemed sobered by his new sense of power, the next moment as youthfully impulsive as the Harrow schoolboy he once was. He spent one typical morning gravely conferring on affairs of state in his palace office, then suddenly ordered his private de Havilland plane made ready, zipped...
After criticizing Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat for honoring the "intentions and ambitions" of Arab terrorists, Peretz said withdrawal of Israeli troops from the West Bank compromises Israel's security...