Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan also attempted last week to refocus attention from the immediate problem of Lebanon to his longer-range goal, negotiating a general Arab-Israeli peace based on an "association" of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza with Jordan. Reagan first welcomed Jordan's King Hussein to the White House and assured him that the pullout of the Marines from Beirut implied no weakening of U.S. support for Jordan against its unfriendly neighbor Syria. The President then invited Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who also was in Washington, to join him and Hussein at lunch...
Moreover, Shultz's familiarity with the Middle East, which he gained through Bechtel's business contacts with Arab countries, may have edged him toward hubris. The unraveling of his Lebanon policy has led Shultz to resent everyone else, including the White House "pragmatists," his erstwhile political allies. "George Shultz is ticked off at us," concedes a White House aide...
Unidentified assassins gunned down the Libyan Ambassador to Italy, Ammar el Taghazi, last month. More recently, two radical terrorist groups claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting on a Paris street of Gholam Ali Oveissi, who commanded Iran's army under the Shah. The next day the United Arab Emirates Ambassador to France, Khalifa Ahmed Abdel Aziz Mubarak, was slain as he left his Paris home. Italy is not alone in serving as a killing ground for Middle Eastern vendettas, and the Red Brigades, specialists in death, may have found new life through ties to the Middle East...
...delegation, Yossi Sarid, 43, is the most salient dove in the Labor party and one of the most talented members of Knesset. He is, in a way, the flagbearer for tens or hundreds of thousands of people in Israel, who believe in a dialogue with the Palestinians and the Arab states and strongly oppose the war in Lebanon...
...somewhat anachronistic framework for solution to the Palestinian problem, which was shaped in the '70s by the Kissinger school. Generally, he said, it seems that the present government in Israel does not see the core of the conflict in the Palestinian problem, but rather in the refusal of the Arab states to recognize Israel's right to exist and to live in secure borders. The Palestinians, on their side, would not join negotiations unless Israel recognizes their right for self-determination...