Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palestine Liberation Organization has always been an anomaly, deriving its strength from a position of inherent weakness. From 1976 to 1982 it was the single strongest influence on the Arab world, a threat not only to Israel, its declared enemy, but to every Arab government that did not offer it support. Not since Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser has a Middle Eastern leader embodied Arab nationalist aspirations as did P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat. He had no country of his own to run, but in the eyes of many Palestinians he enjoyed greater legitimacy than most of the Arab world...
...much of Arafat's power was not military but political. As the premier spokesman on the highly charged issue of Palestine, Arafat had threatened, cajoled and argued his way into every council in the Arab world, most of the chancelleries of Western Europe, the United Nations and even the Vatican. While his troops fought a losing battle in Tripoli, Arafat still commanded the loyalty of some 110 P.L.O. representatives around the world,The organization's political wing, most experts agreed, will not go along with the moves of Syrian President Hafez Assad. That, paradoxically, could push moderates...
Arafat's biggest mistake was to vacillate at a time when he was in a position to make a courageous decision that could have borne fruit for the 1.2 million Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied territories. He seemed to perceive the opportunity when, at an Arab summit in Fez last year, he came as close as he ever had to endorsing Israel's right to exist. In April he entered into negotiations with King Hussein on President Reagan's plan to link the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan. Although Israel had rejected the plan outright, there...
...Syrian President may have dealt a mortal blow to Arafat's leadership, but his brutal Realpolitik was not supported by any Arab government except Libya's. From Jordan and Egypt to Saudi Arabia and the gulf states, Arab governments were still voicing support for Arafat...
...from cancer); in Washington, D.C. During his decade as boss of the Post, he expanded the paper's parochial "government town" view by increasing international coverage and science reporting. In 1966 Friendly became a roving correspondent and won a Pulitzer Prize for his frontline dispatches during the 1967 Arab-Israeli...