Word: arabization
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...area long subject to colonial rule. This rule ended after World War II, when all countries there won full independence. Out of the Palestinian mandated territory was born the new state of Israel. These historic changes could not, however, instantly banish animosities born of the ages. Israel and her Arab neighbors soon found themselves at war with one another. And the Arab nations showed continuing anger toward their former colonial rulers, notably Great Britain and France...
...second, more urgent message to Ben-Gurion, the white-haired old leader who held peace or war in his hands. In a statement the President informed the U.S. people of the new crisis and of his messages to Ben-Gurion. The President directed his ambassadors to urge the Arab countries to "refrain from any action which could lead to hostilities...
...whom the U.S. wanted to entrust "the great decisions about the H-bomb." He challenged the Administration's handling of the Suez Canal crisis and the Middle East situation, asserting that Russia's influence there is at a peak, that "the rising fires of Arab nationalism" are a threat to world peace. And he won applause when he said that "Israel is not a cause to be cynically remembered by the Administration in late October" but is a "symbol of man's triumph over ... the attempt of Adolf Hitler to destroy a whole people...
...designed largely to meet the military threat, will no longer suffice in a situation of flux. Containment must now be translated into positive terms which can play upon Soviet weaknesses and which will take into account the increasing demand for neutralism and economic advance among Asian, African, and Arab nations...
...well as internationalizing the canal, the United Nations should take this opportunity to establish an effective patrol of Israeli-Arab borders. Otherwise, the border incidents which have acted as a catalyst to the recent explosion would only begin again...