Word: egyptians
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Last week the commanders of both Egyptian and Syrian forces in Saudi Arabia declared that they would not take part in any counterinvasion of Kuwait. In Kuwait, as in Korea (our most recent exercise in collective security), if war comes it is America that will carry the fight. When the Iraqis complain that the anti-Iraq coalition, the U.N. front, the whole multi-lateral apparatus, is little more than a cover for an assertion of American power, they exaggerate only slightly...
...silence was essential to keeping most of the Arab world united against Saddam. The tragedy on the Temple Mount, one of the most sacred sites in Islam, put Israel under diplomatic siege. Saudi Arabia decried the "brutal and savage attack," and Jordan denounced it as "racist and criminal." Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused Israel of "brutal repression," while Syria . alleged that Israel actually orchestrated the clashes to force Arabs out of the occupied territories...
...Arab states saw it, the issue was whether there was one international law for Arab governments and another for non-Arabs. "This time the world community must prove that principles (such as those used to justify collective action against the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) are indivisible," editorialized the Egyptian Gazette...
...example, Greek or Egyptian scores might sound as images of modern day rowers cross the screen, making the connection between today's sport and soldier-rowed warships of the past, Jarrell said...
Arafat is also caught in a political squeeze. The gulf leaders refuse his calls, and he is unwelcome in their countries. In addition, the emerging Saudi-Egyptian-Syrian axis cuts him out of the locus of power. Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak feels personally betrayed by Arafat, and Syria's Hafez Assad has long disdained...