Word: pro-arab
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...Arab oil squeeze has hurt Japan far more than any other major industrial country. After the U.S., it is the largest petroleum consumer in the world. Unlike the U.S., however, Japan must import all of its oil. About 84% of it comes from the Middle East: 43% from Arab nations and the rest from Iran. Thus, Japan was an obvious target when Saudi Arabia and the sheikdoms decided to turn off the pipeline spigots. Being forced to change its traditionally neutral policy in the Middle East toward a pro-Arab stance was particularly humiliating for a nation in which saving...
...Arab oil cutback than the U.S., the Europeans are outraged that no European country has been invited to the Geneva peace conference. The British and the French are particularly frustrated. Britain once considered the Middle East almost its own; France, since Charles de Gaulle, has been consistently pro-Arab. Both countries nonetheless find themselves now suffering from the oil shortages...
...Africa and Portugal were added to the list of embargoed nations, which also includes The Netherlands and the U.S. Japan and the Philippines were spared a further 5% production cut. European nations, except The Netherlands, were promised relief from scheduled cutbacks so long as they continued to maintain a pro-Arab line...
...resentment against the Arabs rises, there will be swelling demands for countermeasures. The U.S. commitment to Israel also will be sorely tested, as the State Department's large pro-Arab contingent, the oil companies and others push for a policy more congenial to the sheiks. Says Professor William Griffith, a Middle East specialist at M.I.T.: "People are not going to urge that we abandon Israel. But you'll hear more and more statements to the effect that the U.S. should moderate its Middle East policy and should pressure Israel to abandon the conquered territories...
Prime Minister Den Uyl was coming under increasing public pressure for the bravely outspoken ways of his Socialist-dominated coalition government. In Eindhoven, a headwaiter summed up the new mood this way: "We are all pro-Israel, and there's no reason to hide our feelings. We are certainly not getting more pro-Arab now, but that's no reason for the government of a small and vulnerable country to go out flag waving in the world, praising countries we like and lambasting the others...