Word: syrians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Syrian press also criticized Carter's talk of defensible borders as a pro-Israeli position, but welcomed the President's suggestion that a settlement would have to include Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories and make some provision for the Palestinians. At first, the Palestinians were bitterly disappointed by Carter's insistence that the U.S. would not negotiate with the Palestine Liberation Organization until it recognizes Israel's right to exist. Said Kamal, a political officer of the P.L.O., warned: "You Americans must want all the Palestinians to become extremists...
...Lebanon's Muslim left and feudal landlord whose power base was rooted among the 150,000 members of the Druze sect. His assassination last week threatened to reopen the bloody civil war in Lebanon, which since November has been living under a "peace" enforced by three divisions of Syrian troops...
Confronted by the prospect of renewed fighting, Syrian troops refrained from going on alert in order not to create a crisis atmosphere. Christians in East Beirut fired rifles in joy, and Syrian troops had to keep gangs of Muslim leftists from setting up the kind of barricades that had divided the city at the height of the fighting. Outside the 300-year-old family castle in the mountain town of Mukhtara, some 50,000 mourners, including Premier Selim Hoss, a Muslim, gathered in the rain for Jumblatt's funeral...
...stressing the difficulties of clearly identifying an "Arab Left" the author points out the dangers of political labels in general. First, political labels in the Arab world are not necessarily comparable to those elsewhere; second, it is difficult to define what being "leftist" actually means in Egyptian, Syrian, or Iraqi politics. After scanning the turbulent skies of this aspect of Arab politics, no matter how clearly it is presented, one begins to regret ever having used the terms "right" and "left" for any political grouping, anywhere...
Producer-Director Moustapha Akkad was confronted by a unique problem: the strict Muslim prohibition against representing the Prophet's face or form, or even his voice-in any medium. A wiser or less determined man might have bailed out right there, but Akkad, 43, a Syrian-born American who studied film making at U.C.L.A., pressed on, raising $17 million from Arab sources to make two versions of the story, one in English, the other in Arabic. His actors constantly address an empty space where the audience must imagine a silent Prophet to be standing...