Word: arabization
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Once we show our strength, you will hear less nonsense from the oil-country Arabs, and have less trouble from the Arabs in North Africa. Israel will expand. But if it grows big enough, its Arab neighbors will be unable to challenge it, and there will be peace at last in the Middle East - the kind of peace the U.N. cannot bring you, because it has become only an echo cham ber of the world's conflicts...
...cruel because bigger in the totals of human slaughter, but it was, after all, in character for Communists. Israel could claim the need to break the menacing circle of declared enemies. France had emotional and strategic reasons for crushing Nasser, to get at the source of supply of the Arab rebels in French North Africa. As for Britain, its justification for aggression against Egypt had to be that a quick war could bring the kind of Middle East solution that diplomacy had failed to achieve...
...hope to crush Nasser without much bloodshed. If we do, we will be rid of an ambitious dictator who not only threatens our oil interests and our Suez Canal status and stings our pride, but with his ambitious Arab nationalism threatens the whole security of European civilization...
Late Joiner. At first, Britain was not I in on this act. Britain was still busy try-I ing to outbid Nasser for leadership of the I Arab world. Early in October, Sir Anthony I Eden infuriated the Israelis by suggesting Va peace based on the 1947 partition plan, which would cost Israel all the territory it won later by beating the Arabs. Jordan was the battleground of Britain's contest with Nasser. Jordan had kicked out Britain's Glubb Pasha, but still needed its $33-million-a-year subsidy from Britain. At London's urging, Iraq (Britain's only...
With Jordan's virtual loss, Britain saw her own position in the Arab world crumbling. Britain was bitter and disillusioned at the failure of her efforts to bring Nasser to heel. In the U.N., the Russians had just vetoed the latest effort to force a solution on Egypt. Both British and French were increasingly annoyed at U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. In their view, Dulles had precipitated Nasser's anger by his abrupt decision to end the Aswan dam deal. Furthermore, when Nasser countered by seizing the canal company, Dulles had talked the British and French...