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...Israel is a state which belongs nowhere because it comes from nowhere," said Lebanese Delegate to UNESCO Halim Said Abu-Izzeddin. Explaining the conference's measures, UNESCO's new head, Amadou Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal, declared: "UNESCO is composed of almost the same member states as the U.N. It is natural that the problems which perturb the world today should find an echo there...
...been standing still in Washington while a procession of Middle Eastern diplomats shuttles in to see him. So far, the roster has included Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, Prime Minister Zaid Rifai of Jordan, Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy of Egypt, Jordan's King Hussein, Foreign Ministers Abdel Halim Khaddam of Syria and Omar Saqqaf of Saudi Arabia. This week the latest shuttler, Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin, arrives to spend four days conferring with Kissinger and President Ford...
...which captured chunks of the Golan Heights in 1967 and extended its gains in the October war. But in secret meetings in Damascus last week, hardliners and moderates in the Baath National Command engaged in fierce debates over how Syria should act. The hardliners, headed by Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam, insisted that the cease-fire agreement should be Syria's only concession until Israel withdraws from all occupied territory. The moderates, led by Premier Mahmoud Ayoubi, reportedly were agreeable to a phased Israeli withdrawal. In exchange for commitments to withdraw, moreover, they would provide Israel with a list...
Outraged that the Egyptian attack was launched on Yom Kippur, the solemn Jewish Day of Atonement, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban called it "blasphemous." The Grand Sheik Abdel Halim Mahmoud, Egypt's highest religious authority, proclaimed the war a jihad, a holy war. "We are fighting as the early Moslems fought against the infidels," he declared in Cairo's Al Azhar mosque. "All the dead in battle are sure of paradise." In Saudi Arabia, the Interior Ministry urged its citizens to "destroy the enemies of religion...
Looking at "the dysfunctioning of Arab society," Beirut Social Psychologist Halim Barakat says: "Men alienated from established orders have alternatives." Barakat suggests three alternatives-revolution, withdrawal and resignation-and notes that only the second and third are acceptable in Arab culture. Revolution against a government is one thing; against the traditional structure of society, it is quite another...