Word: syrians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unfortunate that the U.S. sees only the Israeli position and looks through Israeli binoculars, ignoring the 3.5 million Palestinians with all their potentials and capabilities. Thus for the Palestinians, the U.S. and Israeli lines are still the same. This is, after all, not an Egyptian-Israeli struggle, not a Syrian-Israeli struggle. It is a struggle about the Palestinian cause and a struggle for the future of the Palestinian people. Peace, real peace, everlasting peace, is that peace that will respond to the demands of the Palestinian people...
...expelled from the U.N. The measure was supported by most of the Arabs. "The condition for Arab aid is support for their fight against Israel," explained a Latin American diplomat. But Egypt, concerned about jeopardizing Kissinger's efforts to reach a new interim peace agreement, opposed the Syrian proposal. So did several Black African countries and others like Singapore, Argentina and Indonesia. In the end, the conference adopted a mild, inconclusive resolution urging Israel to evacuate occupied Arab territory...
...temper its current economic boycott of firms doing business with Israel. Sadat, of course, has already reopened the Suez Canal and twice extended the mandate of the U.N. buffer force. Under the same unpublished codicil, Israel would apparently accept the principle of negotiating a similar interim agreement with the Syrians, and perhaps the Palestinians as well. This arrangement for linkage between the two Israeli frontiers is understandably vague, but seemingly enough for the Egyptians to say privately to both the Syrian and Palestinian leaders that Cairo has not sold them out. "Sadat will not take a unilateral step...
...Sinai to protect the Suez Canal, and he would undoubtedly welcome a U.S. guarantee. It would mean that Egypt could reach an informal agreement with Israel but would not be bound by a formal treaty or a politically unpalatable pledge of nonbelligerency until there was also agreement on the Syrian front and on the Palestinian issue. Some kind of understanding would protect moderates like Sadat from attacks by radical Arabs, notably the hard-lining Palestinians. In Tripoli last week, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who is feuding with Sadat, met with George Habash, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation...
Irritating the radicals was a visit by Syrian President Hafez Assad and a retinue of his Cabinet ministers to Amman. Assad, the first Syrian head of state to visit Jordan in 20 years, flew to Amman to discuss increased military coordination between the two countries. He also sought to ease continuing strained relations between King Hussein and the P.L.O. The visit was something of a triumph for the Jordanian King, whose standing in the Arab world has been steadily reviving since last year's Rabat summit, where Arab leaders accepted Arafat rather than the King as sole spokesman...