Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does he explain the presence of Arab members in Israeli Labour Party and in that party's Central Committee, as well as in the Israeli Parliament? On the other hand could anyone tell me the number of Jews in the Egyptian Arab-Socialist Union, or in the Syrian or Iraqi Ba'ath Party, or perhaps in the Jordanian Parliament? But to digress to a discussion of the double standard of morality where Israel is concerned is not my aim here...
...really knew who had killed the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party as he was being driven to a meeting with party members. Slowing down at a corner to begin a steep climb 18 miles southeast of Beirut, the car was blocked by a Pontiac with an Iraqi license plate. Four men machine-gunned Jumblatt, his driver and his bodyguard; all three died almost immediately. The assassins sped away, crashed their car two miles down the road and hijacked a Fiat...
...stressing the difficulties of clearly identifying an "Arab Left" the author points out the dangers of political labels in general. First, political labels in the Arab world are not necessarily comparable to those elsewhere; second, it is difficult to define what being "leftist" actually means in Egyptian, Syrian, or Iraqi politics. After scanning the turbulent skies of this aspect of Arab politics, no matter how clearly it is presented, one begins to regret ever having used the terms "right" and "left" for any political grouping, anywhere...
...Iraqi Passport. That was certainly not the only anomaly in the affair. Even the circumstances of Abu Daoud's arrest in Paris were strange. He had come to the French capital as a member of a high-ranking Palestinian delegation to attend the funeral of Mahmoud Saleh, a former P.L.O. representative who had been gunned down a few days earlier on a Paris street. Traveling on an Iraqi passport issued in the name of Youssef Hanna Raji, Abu Daoud made no effort to disguise his easily recognizable features. He breezed through immigration and checked into...
...across the Persian Gulf−an escalation that Saudi Arabia, one of those neighbors, decidedly does not wish to encourage. The archconservative Saudis are also at odds with the radical Arab states of Algeria, Iraq and Libya, whose hand would be strengthened by a big oil-price jump. The Iraqi oil minister, Tayeh Abdul-Karim, blasted the Saudis for trying to force OPEC to "succumb to pressures from the oil monopolies and imperialist forces...