Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's own plan envisions self-government by the Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and eventual federation of those areas with Jordan, in return for Arab recognition of Israel's right to exist behind secure borders. American diplomats remain optimistic that after long consultations among Arab capitals, and between them and Washington, some Arab states will offer to negotiate on the basis of these proposals, and that Israeli yearning for peace will make the offer one Begin cannot refuse. The events of last week, says one State Department official, "make it more...
...complications raised by Gemayel's murder, the Israeli occupation of West Beirut and the massacre, however, are nasty indeed. They strengthen doubts among the Arabs about the ability of the U.S. to get Israel to make any concession whatsoever, and thus redouble Arab hesitancy about bargaining. Says Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ah of Egypt, the only Arab state that has diplomatic relations with Israel: "You cannot start negotiations when the Israelis are occupying an Arab capital." Still, the swift, outraged worldwide reaction to the massacre might pressure Israel into pulling out of Beirut sooner than it had wished...
...There is deep outrage against the Phalangists, Israel, and the U.S. among Harvard's Arab community," said George Bisharat, President of the Arab Students Society...
However, more immediate fears are predicated on what would happen if the oil supply to industrialized countries was suddenly cut off. The Arab oil embargo in 1973 and the fall of the shah in 1978 were oil shocks which, according to Yergin, could foreshadow a more rehabilitating oil stoppage. Those two events alone hiked the price of OPEC oil by four and two-and-a-half times respectively, clearly contributing to the West's high inflation and unemployment rates. Yergin predicts that a third oil shock could shake the economic systems of Western countries that have not yet learned...
...issue of Israel's existence or survival is not in doubt anymore; more than 30 years of fortitude in response to Arab rejection has assured that. But Sharon and Begin's road is not necessarily the only one to peace. American Jews must feel free to differ from the party line...