Word: arabization
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...most Arab lands of the Middle East, young army officers with revolutionary social ideas and anti-Western feelings may be riding high. But they have yet to unseat Iraq's tough Strongman Nuri es-Said, 68, the coolheaded camelback raider of Lawrence of Arabia's World War I anti-Turk desert revolt, who boasts: "I was risking my life for the Cause of Arab independence before Nasser was out of his swaddling clothes...
Nuri has often been accused of being a British stooge. It took courage for him to keep Iraq in the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact, along with Britain, after Britain invaded Egypt. Nuri declared public sympathy for Egypt, and sought to prove his devotion to the Arab cause by outdoing everyone else in crying that Israel must be wiped out. All the while, Egyptian, Syrian and Moscow radios launched fierce propaganda attacks against him, in similarity of phrasing that suggested collaboration. Last month bloody rioting erupted in Baghdad and An Najaf, and Radio Cairo shouted that "the traitor" was doomed...
After Suez. Not all Britons objected. Many recognized that in the Arab countries, Britain and France are currently so discredited that only the U.S. can save positions essential to all of them (a quite different thesis from the angry Tory backbench contention that U.S. interests are trying to drive the British out of the Middle East). They understood that the alliance stands as firm as ever in the geographical limits of its primary purpose-the defense of Europe-and that Britain remains the U.S.'s closest friend by blood, interests and sentiment. This fact was underlined last week when...
...Israel's invasion of Egypt last October, alerts were out all along the frontier. In the narrow northern waist of Israel, a zealous police officer on the Jordan border imposed a 5 p.m. curfew on Kafr Kassim (pop. 2,000), an Arab village inside Israel. All the villagers who got the word complied. But those who worked in nearby Tel Aviv, or had walked across the fields for afternoon visits, knew nothing of the sudden order. As dusk fell, they strolled homeward-quarrymen with knapsacks slung over their shoulders, women in their long, embroidered Arab dresses carrying or leading...
...fear of its impact abroad and among Israel's 190,000 other Arabs at the moment his troops were launching their attack on Egypt, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion suppressed the news of this modern Massacre of the Innocents. But he set up a private inquiry committee, and after its report, arrested the killers and compensated the victims' families ($500 to $2,500). Despite efforts to keep the secret, in tiny Israel the word spread, and shocked citizens pressed Ben-Gurion to make public the disgrace. Every political party sent petitions. Last week the old man finally gave...