Word: lebanon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have carefully refrained from openly endorsing Sadat's peace initiative, partly because they fear he will fail. Now, apparently, they are having second thoughts. In Beirut last week, a former Lebanese Premier, Saeb Salam, strongly supported Sadat. Since Salam is widely regarded as Riyadh's man in Lebanon, the Arab world interpreted his words as an indirect sign that Saudi Arabia, with its enormous economic powers of persuasion, was moving toward an open endorsement of Egypt's position. That possibility alone should serve to bolster Anwar Sadat's sagging spirits...
...would never sit at the negotiating table with their Zionist counterparts. After the creation of Israel in 1948, the boycott was even more thorough. At the Arab-Israeli Lausanne conference of 1949, the two sides stayed in separate hotels, never saw one another, and communicated only through couriers. When Lebanon's Charles Malik was president of the U.N. General Assembly, he once strayed into the Israeli pavilion at an international fair and drank a champagne toast. He was photographed in the act and was savagely attacked throughout the Arab world...
...Iran. I started forming my first impression of the bold action that I wrote about in the letter to Carter. My first initiative was this. Why not ask the five big powers in the Security Council to come to Jerusalem with the other parties concerned-Syria, Jordan, the Palestinians, Lebanon-and give every guarantee and assurance to Israel? Here would be the five big powers, with the veto and everything-richness, power, everything. Because they are heads of state, I can't tell them to sit in Jerusalem and discuss the whole problem. This would not be practical...
...Because Syria has rejected Sadat, there will be trouble in south Lebanon and Syria. Sadat will be ready to cooperate with Israel to make all kinds of trouble because the ultimate goal is to finish off the Palestinians. Sadat will also be attempting to destroy Assad himself. Sadat is now thinking that anything he can do to create difficulties for his opponents he will do:-without hesitation and with the compliance of the Israelis...
...thinks in terms of 1967 and 1973, no one could make the decision to fight. Israel is too powerful for that kind of war, and Israel would win. But there is another way of fighting. One can fight inside Israel. We can fight from the borders of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, and we can cross into Israel. This is the long struggle. In 20 years I can see us fighting in Haifa, Jerusalem, in all the occupied towns, and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't win that...