Word: pro-arab
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...emotional Israelis have unfairly regarded Saunders as "pro-Arab" ever since he gave Senate testimony three years ago in which he cited "the legitimate interests" of the Palestinians. Suddenly last week the veteran diplomat became a handy scapegoat. In a stormy session with...
...appearance in Washington of sleek limousines rolling away from the city's Madison Hotel to carry Saudi Arabian princes and high officials to meetings with Senators had an impact. American-educated Saudi Prince Turki attended a lunch given by South Dakota's pro-Arab James Abourezk for 22 other Senators. Individually, Turki and another member of the Saudi royal family, Prince Bandar, met with other Senators. Also from Riyadh came Ghazi Algosaibi, Minister of Industry and Power, and Sulaiman As-Salim, Minister of Commerce. All were low-key but sophisticated salesmen who, in excellent English, made a strong...
...indication of the depths to which relations between Carter and the Jews have sunk is a nasty squabble over Carter's chief foreign affairs adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Jewish leaders blame him for much of what they see as the pro-Arab tilt in Administration policy. Brzezinski has aggravated the tension by charging that the Jewish community is trying to smear him as antiSemitic. Retorts Rabbi Alexander Schindler. chairman of the Conference of Presidents: "That's an outrageous overreaction on his part. Nobody called him anti-Semitic or implied that. Disagreement is not racist." His conference colleagues back Schindler...
...told friends in Amman that he was going to make a detour to Jerusalem on his way to Cairo. "Haven't been there for years," he said. "I guess they consider me public enemy No. 1." Holden was joking, though it is true that Israeli officials considered him pro-Arab because of his sensitive reporting on the plight of Palestinians. Holden had also criticized Arab left-wingers for "their stupid boasts and futile gestures," and some friends believe he may have been the victim of Arab extremists...
...Brzezinski's father Tadeusz, at the time Polish consul in Leipzig. The elder Brzezinski in those stern memos to German authorities had protested their discrimination against Jews. It was a well-meant but pointed gift, indeed, to the younger Brzezinski, whom the Israelis have tabbed as pro-Arab...