Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palestinian terrorist slaughter that had triggered it?changed the diplomatic outlook for the Middle East. Ever since Anwar Sadat undertook his "sacred mission" to Jerusalem last November, the focus had been on the pursuit of peace and the chance that, despite all the subsequent setbacks, the Egyptian President's initiative could somehow propel the protagonists toward an unraveling of their ancient grievances. Now, suddenly, the talk of peace was replaced by grave concern about a renewal of the old Middle East "cycle of violence," as U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance called...
...protector of the Arabs against Israel; in fact, it became involved in the 1967 war partly because of a real or imagined threat by Israel against Syria. All that is changed now. Last week, when Israel invaded another Arab state, Lebanon, there was no talk of mobilizing the Egyptian armed forces, and the Egyptian President at first criticized the Israeli action with notable restraint. It all bore out what influential Egyptians have been saying for weeks: "No more Egyptian blood will be shed for Palestinians...
...Christian Lebanese soldiers (who oppose the Palestinians), or to U.N. peacekeeping forces, or to a combination of the two. But actually, the Israelis have declared de facto control over a strip of southern Lebanon, and it looks as if they intend to retain some kind of presence. As an Egyptian foreign ministry official saw it: "The Israelis probably will withdraw from south Lebanon under certain conditions, but they are establishing their right to return whenever they like. In almost colonial terms, Israel is creating a protectorate over south Lebanon...
...what matters," he continues, "is that such steps as these show the world that Begin remains an expansionist." Some of the same grumbling can be heard in Cairo, where a ranking Egyptian official observes...
...pressures on the Egyptian President have seriously increased, even as the chances have diminished that he will be able to fulfill his role as catalyst for a comprehensive settlement embracing all the Arab nations that remain in a state of war with Israel. Some observers are convinced, however, that the P.L.O. raid and the Israeli reprisal are part of an inevitable chain of events that is pulling Sadat toward making a separate peace with Israel...