Word: pro-arab
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...severe energy shortage, Europe and Japan are already suffering from a more acute case of oil deficiency. The Arabs have been successfully playing off one nation against another in the hope of preventing any coordinated retaliatory sanctions. After Common Market foreign 2 ministers issued a self-consciously pro-Arab statement in Brussels, the Arabs last week exempted all Common Market members except The Netherlands from a further 5% cutback planned for December. West Germany sent envoys to Saudi Arabia in search of an arrangement that would allow oil destined for Germany to pass through embargoed Dutch ports. Other governments...
...TIME learned that Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani suggested to the Japanese ambassador that in order to be classed as a "friendly" nation, Japan should break relations with Israel. Tanaka told Kissinger that to get supplies, Japan would have to abandon its formally neutral stance for a pro-Arab policy, and asked for U.S. understanding. Kissinger urged...
...commentator on Radio Luxembourg called it a "black day" for the European Common Market and "the end of Europe." Never one to disguise her convictions, Newswoman Liliane Thorn-Petit attacked the nine Common Market Foreign Ministers for what she considered a pro-Arab policy. The officials, she said, lacked the courage to stand up to Arab oil producers. None of her targets had reason to be pleased with Mme. Thorn-Petit's assault, but the least happy victim last week was Luxembourg Foreign Minister Gaston Thorn, who happens to be her husband...
Many neutral and European analysts agree with the Kissinger view that the Soviet Union has acted so far with reasonable restraint, considering its pro-Arab history and commitments. As they see it, the Kremlin has moved in understandable self-interest to regain influence in the Middle East, after being so unceremoniously kicked out of Egypt by Sadat in 1972. Now Arab officialdom is ringing with praise of the Russians. Yet it is not in the Soviet interest, in this view, for Moscow to push for a mortal blow at Israel. That not only would clash head-on with U.S. interests...
Members of pro-Arab and anti-Zionist groups said they were basically opposed to U.S. aid to Israel. Several Palestinian Arab groups pleaded for the Arabs' right to self-determination...