Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Measured in terms of its cost on a daily basis, the $5 billion price tag attached to the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty comes to about 1½? a day for each of us. That is low-cost insurance...
...Egyptian-Israeli pact. It is a big step backward. I love peace. We all love peace. It is because of our love for peace that we oppose what is going on in the White House right now. This event will compound the problem of the Middle East. I expect that the Palestinian people will strengthen their resistance against the Israelis and that the Egyptian government will take an unfriendly and aggressive attitude toward the Arabs. At the same time, there will be an increase in the Arabs' unfriendly feelings toward Americans. Also, this action [signing the treaty] will hasten...
...arms sales to Egypt. While making propaganda about peace, the U.S. is increasing the danger of war. [Gaddafi argued that the new Egyptian arms are likely to be used not against Israel but against Libya. In July 1977, Egypt launched sharp raids against Libya in a border dispute.] If the Americans seek to change the balance [of power in the region] in a way that is threatening to Libya, we will be forced to seek Soviet assistance to counter that threat. When reactionary regimes threaten us, we will resist...
...could not have come at a more delicate time. As the oil ministers of the 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries gathered in Geneva for a specially scheduled policy review session, the U.S. President was not only wrapping up an Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement that is bitterly opposed in much of the Arab world, but he was also preparing to announce some energy measures that would stress increased domestic oil production to reduce the nation's perilous dependence on the OPEC cartel. Throughout the industrialized world, meanwhile, governments were struggling to keep alive a recovery from...
...that. About the only Washington official to speak out strongly was Senator Henry Jackson. Besides showing OPEC's "greed," he said, the price boost reflected "a punitive doctrine" by Arab oil states eager to condemn the U.S. for acting as midwife to the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty...