Word: arabization
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...long slow movement of events there is no real reason why Arab unity has to be against the West. The Arab world needs the techniques of the West to overcome its poverty, disease and ignorance. It needs the West's markets for its oil. But the misfortune of contemporary history is that any leader who tries to establish Arab unity in his own lifetime seems driven to make anti-Western emotion his main tool, and the more frenetic his outcry the more successful he is likely to be. Such is the destiny of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Arab...
After the last week's Middle East convulsion, the question was not whether Nasser is lost to the West (he was never the West's to lose), but whether he has forfeited the independence of the Arab unity movement-for Arab nationhood has no more desire to be Russia's slave than dependent on the West...
...Chamoun is a criminal. He adores everything foreign and hates everything Arab...
...Chamoun must go! So strike again and again, beloved Lebanese people. Tomorrow Chamoun and every Chamoun will fall, and the Arab people will dictate their desires...
...King. Under the Arab Union's constitution, Hussein, the "No. 2 King" in the federation of Iraq and Jordan, automatically became ruler of both Jordan and Iraq when Feisal was assassinated. He appealed to loyal Iraqis to fight under his banner alongside his own British-trained Arab Legion, once the best Arab fighting force in the Middle East. When it became apparent that there were no loyal forces left in Iraq, Hussein told his people in a broadcast, "The ambitions of international Communism have reached our country through certain Arab leaders who gave themselves to the devil...