Word: arabism
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...close of their three-day meeting, those gathered in Casablanca agreed only to send emissaries to mediate between several feuding Arab states, including Syria and Iraq, and to condemn Iran for its role in the five-year-old Persian Gulf war. In their final communiqué, the summiteers blandly "noted with appreciation" explanations given by Jordan's King Hussein and by Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, of a Middle East peace initiative that the two men put together in February. Even so, to the optimistic Jordanians, that relatively opaque reference amounted to a tacit go-ahead for their...
That there was any meeting at all in Casablanca was a minor victory for some of the Arab moderates, notably Jordan's Hussein. Since 1982, Syria, Libya and the other absentee states have blocked efforts to hold any kind of Arab summit in order to avoid a public show of Arab differences...
...June Hussein and Arafat asked that a summit be convened, mainly to bring a halt to attacks on Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut by Syrian-backed Shi'ite Muslim Amal militiamen. Moreover, the two leaders saw an opportunity to win broader Arab support for their initiative...
...both men, the major problem has long been the attitude of Syria, which has charged that in seeking peace with Israel, Hussein and Arafat are defying the collective Arab will and following in the heretical steps of the late President Anwar Sadat of Egypt. In Hussein's view, Arab League backing would put pressure on Washington to take a more positive action on the peace initiative. The Jordanians also hoped that Hussein's demonstration of leadership could ease Washington's fears that Syrian President Hafez Assad will stifle the peace momentum...
...Also in Amman, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak showed up for a private five-hour meeting with Hussein. The two moderate Arab leaders had a couple of important items on their agenda: how to reinvigorate the peace process and what to do about the role of Arafat and the P.L.O. in the wake of the Achille Lauro debacle. Later, Mubarak indicated his hope that the P.L.O. leader could be persuaded to stay in line with the objectives of the peace process...