Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...efforts to resolve the Palestinian problem in order to get Iraq out of Kuwait. In other words, we should ensure that Saddam's withdrawal was unconditional but also state definitively that such a move would open the way for a more active search for a solution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It was not a question of adopting Saddam's plan of Aug. 12, in which he specifically linked an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories to an Iraqi departure from Kuwait. On the other hand, if the U.S. had agreed to our approach to the problem and had been...
...talked with him for several hours, and the session was probably the toughest I've ever had with an Iraqi official. He focused entirely on trying to prove that Kuwait belonged to Iraq from the point of view of history, politics and economics. He spoke about how certain other Arab states "purposefully," as Aziz emphasized, made Iraq act the way it did. I thought to myself how Aziz, arriving in Moscow in 1980 a few days after the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war, had tried to prove to me that it was not Iraq but Iran that had started...
...conspiracy." Neither the U.S. nor Israel, Saddam said, could allow the existence of an Iraq with "beefed-up military muscles." Saddam contended that Saudi Arabia and certain emirates in the gulf were involved in this "conspiracy." Economic pressure had come into play, with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates violating the oil-export quotas that had been set down by OPEC. The price of oil had dropped from $21 to $11 per bbl., which, he said, "spelled economic ruin" for Iraq...
...from Kuwait and the world's reaction to the Kuwait crisis. I especially wanted to bring up these two subjects, since I realized that it was possible Saddam did not have complete information. He gave priority to ( positive reports: for example, about the support Iraq was receiving in the Arab world, about the antiwar demonstrations in the West, about the first hints of differences between the allies in the anti-Iraqi coalition. And as for bad news, the bearer could pay a high price...
...thought it might happen. Iraq had to pledge that it would pull out its forces from Kuwait and then carry out the withdrawal. But Saddam would also know that once his troops had pulled out, a process would start that would lead to a settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The members of the Security Council would actively participate in this process...