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Egypt After Sadat-
HOW PEACE WILL
COMETO
THE MIDDLE EAST
by Gene H. Hogberg
In giving his life, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt made.his ultimate sacrifice for
peace. Yet enemies cynically rejoiced at his death. Do peacemakers stand
a chance in the strife-torn Middle East? Thankfully, one peacemaker
wi/1
succeed.
N
OWHERE
in the world
is peace more needed,
yet so illusive, as in
the Middle East. Nearly
everywhere in this sad corner
of the world there is strife
and turmoil. Just look at the
following "scorecard":
1raq and Iran are bogged
down in a seemingly end less
border conflict. Lebanon-once
catled the Switzerland of the
Middle East- has been ripped
asunder by internecine fighting
between its Moslem and Maron–
ite Christian populations. The
25,000 "peace-keeping" troops
from Syria at times dis–
turb the peace rather
than enforce it.
The kingdom of Jordan
cannot contribute to over–
all peace in the Middle
East because Palest inian
r adica lism exerts a
powerful brake on its pol–
icies. And last year Jor–
dan and Syria nearly
carne to blows because of
.Jordan's support of Syr–
ia's arch-rival, Iraq, in the
1ran-1raq war.
Across nearby North
Africa, wars and rumors
of wars persist. Libya has
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pulled its troops out of Chad, but
its billions of dollars of Soviet
weaponry make its neighbors all
around nervous.
Furtber west, the government of
Morocco is challenged by Soviet and
Algerian-backed guerrillas in the
hotly contested Western Sabara.
On tbe Arabian península are
conflicting cross currents of inter–
national intrigue. The Soviet Union
has established a toehold in South
Yemen, now a training ground for
world terrorism.
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG stsnds by
the tomb of Anwsr Ssdat nesr Csíro.
Egypt's government under President Hos·
ni Mubsrak intends to continue the Camp
David pesce process.
In 1979 Saudi Arabia's regime
was the object of an attempted
coup by religious extremists and
political radicals-sti rred up indi–
rectly by Soviet agents. Despite
new assistance from Washington,
the Riyadh government has little
real influence in Middle East
power struggles.
In late 1981, the eight-point
Saudi peace plan was rejected out–
right at the Arab League summit in
Fez, Morocco-a "non-event" that
collapsed after the first session
because of deep spl its and dissen–
sions within the Arab world.
Then there is the sickening story
of Iran-a nation gone mad, with
its grím weekly tolls of pol itical
executions.
Note that in al! of the
~bove
we have not even
mentioned
Israel
yet.
evertheless the tiny
J ewish state is usually
'ortrayed as the number–
one obstacle to peace and
tability in the Middle
East.
It should be clear, how–
ever, that even without
~he
"Zionist entity" so
despised by its principal
enemies, the Middle East
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~ould
still be plagued
J
ith wars, assassinations,
~oups,
ethnic and reli–
!
gious strife, religious fa-
The
PLAIN TRUTH