Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Egyptian ambassador to the Arab League Tasheen Mohamed Basheer, on leave from his post for a year of study at Harvard's Center for International Affairs, doesn't believe in separating morality from politics...
...does not only wage war with Israel. It is also engaged in a complicated battle with the Arab states. None of these is enthusiastic about a PLO-led state. Some, like Saudi Arabia, fear its potential radicalism. Others, like Syria or Iraq, would like to control the future of the Palestinian nation. Jordan, of course, would prefer to reassert its authority over the West Bank, and Egypt over Gaza. However, for tactical reasons at least, all the Arab states agree that the Palestinians must be given the right of self-determination...
...which aims at giving substance to the ambiguous and open-ended Camp David agreement on a five-year, transitional autonomy scheme for the West Bank and Gaza. Second, there is the strained relationship between the U.S. (and Egypt) on the one hand, and the rest of the Arab world, which has denounced the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty and attacked the Camp David agreement as unacceptable. Thirdly, there is the complicated game that goes on between the Palestinian leaders in the occupied territories, the PLO (to whom most of these proclaim their allegiance) and Jordan...
...solution by the West Bank leaders. While the PLO has few military cards, it has decisive assets when it comes to a political solution, largely because of its hold over the West Bank population, and because of its capacity, if kept aside, to make trouble for all the Arab states other than Egypt--something Syria has already experienced...
...want security," Eliav adds, "but we should not subjugate the Palestinian Arab people by force, because it will erode us. Ruling over another does more harm to the ruler than to the ruled...