Word: arabization
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...solution to the Arab-Israel quarrel finally turns on getting agreed borders. The British propose a settlement based on the lines drawn by the 1947 U.N. partition plan, which among other things gave Galilee to the Arabs. But the Arab nations defied that settlement by going to war, lost the war, and lost Galilee...
What is needed is the Solomonic wisdom that will find the elusive line which is ideal for neither side but acceptable to both, and then the method to guarantee those borders by international compact. That would be the beginning of the essential basis of peace, namely, Arab acceptance of Israel's right to exist...
...Egypt does not want a war." So says Egypt's Premier Abdel Nasser, leading statesman of the Arab world. But the supreme spiritual voice of all Islam in effect denies that protestation. From Cairo's 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University, the Committee of Senior Ulema* solemnly confirmed a jihad (holy war) against Israel...
...million-$50 for every man, woman and child in Israel (and the average national income is only $450 a year). Other recommendations: a ban on luxury imports, and conscription of persons between 35 and 45 to work in frontier settlements likely to face the first thrust of Arab attack...
There seems no reason to doubt that both Mister Nasser and his constitution suit Egyptians fine as of now. His coups in playing off both West and East have fed his country's hungry pride. The new constitution backs his latest bid for Arab-bloc leadership by proclaiming Egypt "an integral part of the Arab nation," which ethnically it is not. It also declares that "Islam is the religion of the State," but gives no say to the Ulema (see above) as to how the country shall...