Word: arabization
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Soviet Infiltration. Communist incursion can be halted only if the Arabs resist it. But they cannot be made to recognize that Russia is their enemy because they are obsessed with their enmity for Israel. Therefore, everything depends on settlement of the Israel-Arab dispute...
...free men, often enough. But I believe that out of that meeting can come, perhaps, a message of hope and guidance to the world." If there was to be hope found, or guidance given, the U.S. and Britain would have to intervene forcefully in the Israel-Arab situation. To hear both impassioned sides tell it (see below), the Arabs and the Jews are preparing for, or at least resigned to war. Part, but not all, of this noise is designed for outside effect, to establish bargaining positions. But the two sides are also so deeply committed emotionally that it will...
...Legion in a broadcast for restoring order, adding: "During the crisis we have identified faces and intentions which do not have the good of the country at heart." First reports said 18 had been killed, 100 wounded. One of those killed was Lieut. Colonel Patrick Lloyd, one of the Arab Legion's 60 British officers...
Deteriorating Strength. Though experience with such street parliamentarians as Mossadegh had taught the world that mob strength in the Middle East can be exaggerated, the latest events in Jordan were treated more gravely in the West than the December risings. The British shelved their strategy of pushing for Arab allegiance to the Baghdad pact. London rushed its paratroopers to Cyprus partly out of the suspicion that the West Bank dissidents had penetrated the Arab Legion to a point where this strong force, once the key to Jordan's stability, might cease to be a reliable instrument of British policy...
When the French deposed Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef in 1953, the rulers of adjoining Spanish Morocco could not control their gloating satisfaction. Posing as champions of the Arab world, they declared the deposition "illegal," welcomed Moroccan nationalists from the French zone, closed their eyes to guerrilla raids on the French zone from hideouts in the Rif Mountains. Theoretically, both Moroccos are one country under the Sultan, and Spain has always resented that she holds her zone only as a sort of sublet from the French. If it were not for those nasty French, the Spanish implied...