Word: arabization
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...though Saudi Arabia had threatened to bar the Aqaba Gulf to unwanted ships. Israel, which had celebrated the Kern Hills' first voyage with crowing triumph, this time censored news of its arrival, apparently concluding that the safest way to keep the Gulf open was to avoid stirring up Arab pride...
Thus an issue which had seemed explosive only two months ago seemed to be gradually subsiding into a tacit acquiescence. As usual, Arab leaders were making suitable protests to satisfy their public. Last week they ordered the Kern Hills blacklisted in all Arab countries. They had already asked Iran to refuse to sell any more oil to Israel; Iran promised, but it is not yet clear whether Iran will object to having its oil sold to various "John Does" who might or might not sell to Israel...
...months after, no Arab nation had made such a move...
VIRTUALLY unknown to the civilized world a century ago, Middle Africa sprawls forbiddingly across a full two-thirds of the earth's second largest continent, an area big enough to contain the entire U.S. with room to spare. On one side the hot Arab lands of North Africa are linked to Europe by more than 2,000 years of common history. At the other end descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers in the Union of South Africa boast a colonial past nearly as long as that of North America. But until the mid-19th century, Middle Africa was only...
Israel's population now stands at 1,800,000. Said Defense Ministry Director Shimon Peres last week: "Israel's security will not be assured until we have a population of 5,000,000." To which Israel's worried Arab neighbors ask: How long will it be before Israel is demanding Lebensraum...