Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charged once again with intransigence. If Israel complies, the prisoners are released, and Syria, appearing to have delivered the hostages to the West, goes to the negotiating table with a strengthened hand. The role of the U.N. is also enhanced, a fact that will no doubt please the Arab states and anger Israel...
...Bush's comments on Soviet internal politics were overshadowed by the hope that the new spirit of U.S.-Soviet cooperation might spread to the Middle East. Secretary of State James Baker, with some important help from Moscow, persuaded Israel to sit down with its Arab neighbors in face-to-face peace talks that could begin in October. Bush hailed the coming peace conference as a "historic opportunity" for a comprehensive Arab-Israeli settlement after 43 years of war and confrontation...
...what some diplomats see as the one-upmanship that the two men have been engaging in since the Bush Administration began reviving the peace process in March. Upon arriving in Jerusalem, the Secretary spent 90 minutes huddled with Shamir before they announced at a joint press conference that Arab-Israeli talks would indeed convene. Peace in the Middle East, said Baker, was "no longer simply a dream...
...considerable understatement, Baker added that there was "some work" to be done to secure the cooperation of the Palestinians, who still insist that they will choose their own delegation without interference and that a representative of East Jerusalem must be included. With all the major Arab states, plus the Soviet Union and other European nations, ready to talk peace, the Palestinians may have no choice but to acquiesce to Shamir's formulation. Jordan's King Hussein has appealed to the P.L.O. not to raise problems over Palestinian representation. And Egyptian Foreign Minister Amre Moussa is seeking a possible compromise: Arab...
...Bands of young Arab men attack the highways of southern France, setting up barricades, occupying tollbooths, fire-bombing buses. They are the sons of Algerians called Harkis, who served the French colonial government during the war in Algeria, and they are demanding jobs and better living conditions...