Word: arabization
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...evacuate the zone completely, leaving only 1,000 caretaker technicians who would be civilians, clad in mufti. The Egyptian military junta presided over by Colonel Abdel Nasser gave way a little too: formerly they would only allow the British to reoccupy the base in case of danger to any Arab state; now an attack on NATO partner Turkey would be sufficient grounds. The other outstanding differences could be settled if the atmosphere stayed friendly: the British ask two years to evacuate the zone and Egypt is offering less than 18 months. The British want to include Iran in the "danger...
...some 870,000 Arab men, women and children fled from the Holy Land to get out of the way while their five armies sought to liquidate the Israelis...
...when the fighting ended in Arab defeat, they had no place-neither in victorious Israel (which feared them as fifth columnists and turned over their lands and houses to Jewish immigrants) nor with their Arab hosts, already short of water for their own people. From Gaza to Syria, they became dwellers-on-the-dole, in 61 tent, mud-hut and cave colonies leaning against the flimsy Israel border...
Just as Johnston flew off to the Middle East, the massacre of the Arab village of Kibya took place (TIME, Oct. 26, 1953), inflaming the area to its highest pitch since 1948. When he landed, the embittered Arab press greeted Johnston (who heads Hollywood's Motion Picture Association) by calling him the Zionist servant of a Jewish-controlled industry; the eight-nation Arab League rejected his scheme, sight unseen. Jordan said it would rather suffer economic disaster than cooperate "directly or indirectly" with the Israelis. Iraq sent word to Johnston not to bother to come (but later shamefacedly invited...
...those months since last October, the atmosphere has changed. Both sides -Arabs, who had not wanted to talk to Johnston, and Israelis, who had not really listened-had devised new proposals. Each revised Johnston's scheme in its own interests. Instead of storing the Jordan's waters in the all-Israel Lake Tiberias, said the Arabs, keep the water behind two dams on the all-Arab Yarmuk. (They also wanted to cut Israel's share of Jordan water from one-third to one-fifth.) The Israelis proposed to double the amount of available water by piping Lebanon...