Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israelis saw it, the Saunders mission was a high-pressure effort to lure Jordan and the Palestinians into the negotiations by publicly siding with the Arab interpretation of the Camp David accords. Israeli officials sharply criticized Saunders for endorsing Arab sovereignty over the West Bank and East Jerusalem, though this has been American policy for more than a decade. Most of all, the Israelis seemed to resent the timing of the Saunders trip, coming as it did while the Washington peace talks were in progress and while Begin was busy preparing his people and his parliament to support a settlement...
...emotional Israelis have unfairly regarded Saunders as "pro-Arab" ever since he gave Senate testimony three years ago in which he cited "the legitimate interests" of the Palestinians. Suddenly last week the veteran diplomat became a handy scapegoat. In a stormy session with...
...still going on. Indeed, the move came as Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman were returning to Washington at midweek to resume negotiations with Egypt and the U.S. Moreover, in a startling statement that was calculated to antagonize not only Carter but every leader in the Arab world, Begin proposed that his own office, as well as that of his Foreign Minister, should be moved from Government Hill in West Jerusalem to predominantly Arab East Jerusalem, which the Israelis have held since the 1967 war, thus reaffirming Israel's intention of retaining the entire city...
...Sadat expected, his Arab enemies vere quick to interpret Israel's latest actions as further proof that Begin intends never to give up either the West Bank or East Jerusalem. Ever since the beginning of his peace efforts last year, Sadat has been dangerously isolated from the Arab world. He was relieved last week when the Sudan became the first Arab state to endorse Camp David, and he also took satisfaction from an editorial in a Saudi Arabian paper, the daily Okaz, declaring that Camp David represented "an important stage in Arab history and should be recognized as an established...
...more important than this modest support were the signs of growing cohesion among the Arab states that oppose Sadat. As a prelude to this week's Arab summit in Baghdad called by Iraq to counter the Camp David accords, Syrian President Hafez Assad flew to the Iraqi capital for a reconciliation with President Ahmed Hassan Bakr. Syria and Iraq have been enemies for years, largely because their governments are run by feuding branches of the Baath (resurrection) party, a pan-Arab movement founded some 40 years ago. Iraq's ruling Revolutionary Command Council holds the hard-line view that...