Word: pan-arab
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...week's end, Damascus had not confirmed any agreement to a ceasefire, and no observers in the Middle East thought that the Syrians were about to pull out more than a token number of their forces. Nonetheless, reports from Beirut indicated that the fighting was diminishing as the Pan-Arab contingents began separating Syrian from Palestinian and leftist Moslem forces. Once again, faint hopes for peace stirred in the prostrate country...
...sacrifice and their Algerian victims behave more and more like model revolutionaries. It is not surprising that many Algerians, particularly the young who don't clearly remember and who are sick of hearing about it, have developed a certain nostalgia for French culture. These same people are often extremely pan-Arab, but they consider French culture as part of their heritage...
...portrait still hangs beside Sadat's in many government offices in Cairo. Nonetheless, the de-Nasserization campaign in Egypt is likely to accelerate. For one thing, Sadat's pragmatic approach to Egypt's future is quite different from Nasser's inflamed rhetoric and crusading Pan-Arab ideology. For another, Sadat's dramatic foreign policy shift-turning Egypt increasingly toward the West-requires that Nasser's pro-Soviet policies be discredited. In Ab-dou's recent book, for example, Nasser is denounced for "bringing the Russians into the Mediterranean...
Others argue that Assad is merely asserting Syria's role as the traditional defender of pan-Arab nationalism. As spokesman for this cause, Assad attacked Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for making the separate Sinai agreements with Israel that have, for the moment, shattered the Arab confrontation front. Since the second accord, Cairo and Damascus have been engaged in a bitter rhetorical feud. Egypt has taunted Syria for having sought a private agreement with Israel by begging for a cease-fire only 24 hours after the fighting commenced in 1973. Cairo newspapers have charged that Syrian "prisons and concentration camps...
...trumpeting of the Palestinian cause, is genuinely willing to make peace with Israel at some point. In light of Syria's long history of hostility toward the Jerusalem government, chances are that any man who succeeded Assad in the near future would be even more of a pan-Arab militant...