Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the points contained in the Arabs' joint resolution, which was offered as a "united peace plan," were familiar ones. The Arab leaders once again called for the creation of an independent Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and reaffirmed the status of the P.L.O. as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. They asked Israel to withdraw to its pre-1967 borders and to dismantle the settlements it has built in the occupied territories...
From the beginning, the Administration was elated by the response the peace plan received. U.S. allies welcomed it, and British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym planned to visit some Arab countries next month to commend the proposal. Most senior U.S. foreign policy experts in both political parties also backed the President's initiative...
After the Fez meeting, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said last week: "Now there are two positions, one stated in a rather conciliatory form from the Arab summit, the other stated rather intransigently from Jerusalem. Now it is the task of diplomacy to find a way, maybe on an interim basis, between these two positions. I think it is possible, and I think the initiative the President has taken provides a basis for it. I feel we have now seen the beginning of a negotiating process...
...human being was born," he wrote in his memoirs of those days, "a specimen completely unknown to the world for over 1,800 years, the fighting Jew." After a year in Soviet prisons, Begin went to Palestine and in swift order was leading the Irgun's violently anti-Arab and anti-British campaigns...
...interested in the public who shout 'Begin! Begin!' in the squares," says Peres. "I believe that our potential was not fully expressed during the 1981 election campaign. We lost some 100,000 votes because of political mistakes. We can win the Arab community, the workers and youth. We are able to capture them and will make...