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...Reagan Administration's Arabist posture, most vigorously advocated by former Bechtel president and current Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38, denies both the history and the cultural context of the Middle East. In his effort to prop up unstable regimes through the use of arms sales. Weinberger hopes to forge an anti-Soviet consensus among Moslems, Christians and Jews. What be naively fails to recognize is that these regimes seek to use American arms to gird themselves against reform at home and employ them to advance the nationalist, as opposed to American, interests...
...Arabist John Williams of the American University of Cairo: "These groups appeal to those who don't think they are getting their fair share of the benefits of modernization." Fundamentalist tendencies are most entrenched in the lower middle class and in Egypt's universities, where they have mushroomed over the past four or five years. Says Dessouki of the converts: "These are people who are neither urban nor rural, who are overwhelmed by city life and feel alien to it. They are a very precarious class...
...born, the first child in the first Jewish kibbutz in Palestine, to Russian immigrant parents in 1915. He developed a deep and lasting love for the land, its history, artifacts and villages, which he wrote about in a 1978 book, Living with the Bible. Because of his Arabist interests, he was sometimes disparaged by his colleagues as "that Arab." But to Dayan's credit, he came to appreciate the concerns of his adversaries more than most Israel officials. His conviction that Jew and Arab must learn to live together and his personal involvement in the post-1967 military occupation...
...affairs within the occupied territories and will have both Israeli and Arab civilians working under him. The armed forces will be responsible for security in the territories; civilians will take over all other tasks. The new governor will be Menachem Milson, a native-born Israeli who is a distinguished Arabist, a professor of Arabic literature at Hebrew University and a former adviser to the military government...
...Union, even though Iraq has a friendship treaty with Moscow very similar to the one Syria just signed. Another cause of friction: Saddam Hussein has also been cracking down on pro-Moscow Communists inside Iraq. "To say that an Iraqi victory would be a Soviet victory is nonsense," says Arabist James Akins, a former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. "Saddam Hussein is No. 1 on the Soviet hit list...