Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger won worldwide acclaim for his Middle East "shuttle diplomacy," which resulted in a series of agreements disengaging Israeli and Arab forces in the Sinai desert and the Golan Heights. Today Kissinger holds out little hope that his virtuoso performance can be duplicated by George Shultz...
...could be more prudent not even to try to unstick the Middle East impasse, Kissinger believes: "It may be better not to get involved than to go there and have things go wrong." Is there no hope? Says Kissinger: "You've got to find some solution which balances the Arab need for self-esteem with Israeli security. I'm not sure it exists...
...addition to conferring with Israel's divided political leaders, Shultz will travel to Jordan, Egypt and possibly other Arab countries in an effort to lay the groundwork for broader negotiations. Jordan's King Hussein has not overtly opposed the new U.S. effort but insists that any solution to the Palestinian issue must receive some kind of international guarantee -- a condition that is acceptable to Washington but not Shamir. For his part, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak feels strongly that any solution must go beyond the deliberately vague Palestinian "autonomy" called for in the 1978 Camp David accords and determine the final...
...Some 8,000 stone-throwing protesters clashed with Israeli police in three villages. In all, 33 demonstrators were injured by rubber bullets and tear-gas canisters fired by police in quelling the disturbances. In the West Bank and Gaza, at least three Palestinians were killed last week as Arab youths stoned cars and torched buses to enforce a general strike...
...fate of another voyage, Shultz's latest round of peace negotiations, remained almost as problematic. Though it has always been taken for granted that the U.S. would participate in the Arab-Israeli peace process when it resumed, Washington has spent years largely on the sidelines and will be playing catch-up ball for a time. As Shultz last week set out for Moscow, where he was to meet with Soviet officials before moving on to the Middle East, the Secretary professed to be unperturbed by Shamir's lack of enthusiasm or any other unfavorable Middle East portent. Said Shultz...