Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indispensable ingredient toward bringing peace not only to Lebanon but to the whole region." So said the new President of Lebanon, Amin Gemayel, 40, to Ronald Reagan on the south driveway of the White House last week. The American President has not heard that kind of talk from many Arab leaders lately. More important, officials hoped that the Gemayel visit to Washington would speed up the search for a solution to the most pressing issue in the Middle East: how to get the Israeli and Syrian armies, as well as the remaining fighters of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...President Reagan also had the region's most intractable problem on his mind last week. Three days after his meeting with Gemayel, he received a seven-member Arab delegation, led by King Hassan II of Morocco. The group had been appointed by the Arab summit conference that met at Fez, Morocco, last month to explore Reagan's plan to solve the Palestinian problem by linking the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to Jordan. The Arabs at Fez had come closer than ever before to a recognition of Israel's right to exist...
...convergence of Arab visitors in Washington underscored the expanding U.S. involvement in the search for peace. Gemayel told Reagan that the 4,000-man U.S., French and Italian peace-keeping force in Lebanon would probably have to be expanded up to 30,000 in order to ensure stability in the country until the Lebanese army can be strengthened. Although U.S. officials do not like the idea of expanding the American garrison, which remains vulnerable to unexpected hostile action, the Administration is coming around to the view that it may have no choice. Said a White House official: "We are being...
...immediate withdrawal of all non-Lebanese forces from Lebanon." Later, before the Security Council, he asked specifically for the removal of Israeli troops from his country. The effect of these remarks was to move Lebanon a notch or two closer to the position of the majority of Arab states, which favors the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip...
...like saying to him, 'Come off it. Don't exaggerate. Our positions in Lebanon are keeping you alive.' He didn't have to go as far as he did to please the Syrians." Some Western diplomats argued, however, that since Gemayel is dismissed by many Arabs as an Israeli puppet, it was necessary for him to try to reassure his Arab neighbors, particularly the oil-producing moderates whose help he will need in rebuilding his country...