Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest uncertainty centered on Arafat's travels. After visiting Morocco, the P.L.O. leader was expected in Amman on March 27 to meet with Hussein. But instead Arafat flew to Saudi Arabia and then to Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait and Syria. Arafat's aim was to shore up Arab support before making any commitment to King Hussein. Arafat did not see Syrian President Hafez Assad, who is strongly opposed to Jordanian participation in peace talks, but he did deliver a fiery speech to a large throng of supporters in Damascus. The next day Arafat arrived in the Jordanian capital...
Isolated after the agreement with Israel, Egypt under Mubarak has actively sought a rapprochement with the rest of the Arab world. The reason is partly financial--without investment from these off-rich nations, economic development will remain difficult, if not impossible. While carefully vowing to uphold Sadat's commitments, Mubarak used the Israeli invention of Lebenon last summer as a pretest to a recal his ambassador from [arme] and attacked Prime Minister Begin for "sounding the drums of war and flexing the muscles of tyrannous force." Though Libya and Syria remain of to Mubarak's overtures, Soudi Arabia, Jordan...
...president, like the Sphinx before him, remains enigmatic. Caught between the embarrassment of inaction during the Lebanese crisis and his endorsement of Camp David, Mubarak now clearly believes that close association with the United States is more a liability than an asset in helping reestablish Egyptian influence among the Arab nations. But whether he will risk all and gamble beyond just an exchange of ambassadors with Moscow is hard to say. Sadat had the strength of character and the nearly megalomaniacal confidence to reverse his country's course almost overnight: Mubarak, an unglamorously disciplined ex-air force officer...
Committee member Noam Chormsky, a linguistics professor at MIT, cited an incident in which a proposed feminist journal--originated by an Arab-Israeli woman--was denied the necessary "government stamp." Although the case was taken to Israel's highest court, there was no American reaction to the refusal...
Herzog, indeed, has been a prominent figure in Israel for more than three decades. A major general, author (The Arab-Israeli Wars), lawyer and businessman, he rose to prominence during two tours as director of military intelligence (1948-50 and 1959-62) and then as Israel's first military governor of the occupied West Bank. Israelis know him best for the informed military commentaries he provided during the 1967 Six-Day War. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1918, he immigrated to Palestine in 1935 but returned to England to study at Cambridge. In 1939 he enlisted...