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...Palestinians on the West Bank understand the problem." Yafeh continues. "Several years ago, when West Bank Palestinian leaders met with Prime Minister Eshkol, they said. 'Do you think Nasser or Hussein care about us? They care only about their careers. If there is another war, whoever wins, we will be the losers. Our two nations--Palestinians and Israelis--must coexist,' they continued. 'We have a lot of claims, but our two nations have to solve the problems ourselves...
Although he no longer worries as much about potential attacks from other Arabs as he did in the days of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser a decade ago, Faisal faces other political complications. One is the Shahanshah of Iran across the Persian Gulf (Saudis doggedly refer to it as the "Arabian Gulf). Like Faisal, the Shah is an oil-rich absolute monarch, but he disagrees with the King about religion (Iranians are Shia Moslems; Saudis, more orthodox Sunnis) and the military steps necessary to protect the Gulf...
...resigned to some kind of territorial compromise with Israel, Arafat obviously considered last week an inappropriate time to mention it. His hard line was clearly aimed toward P.L.O. supporters in the Arab world, where the speech was beamed by satellite. Not since the heyday of the late Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt had any speech been so eagerly awaited. On the streets of Beirut and Cairo, people gathered round anyone carrying a transistor radio to listen in. In the refugee camps of Beirut, Sidon and Tripoli, a holiday was declared; schools were closed, and employees of the U.N. refugee agency...
...Syrians have been the self-appointed standard bearers of Arab nationalism for more than 60 years. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser tried twice to achieve federation between Syria and his own country, only to see the links dissolve in bitter mutual recriminations. Possibly Syria became a nation of intransigents because it has been a land of frustrated promise. Its present frontiers were imposed by the Allies after World War I; today's Syria is a truncated version of a country that for more than 2,000 years included what are now Lebanon, Israel and Jordan...
EGYPTIAN PRIDE. Nasser was the first true Egyptian to rule this country in more than 2,000 years. But in spite of all that foreign domination, our personality never dissolved. One of the principal elements in the success of our battle last October was the faith of every Egyptian, the pride he feels for his land, and the very name Egypt itself...